Andy Grove Quotes
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A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.
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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.
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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
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I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
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Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
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Only the paranoid survive.
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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
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How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
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We are intending a very, very strong make over of our entire product line as the year goes on.
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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.
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Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.
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(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region.