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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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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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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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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Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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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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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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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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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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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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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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By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
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I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
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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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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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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms.
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(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region.
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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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We are intending a very, very strong make over of our entire product line as the year goes on.
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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.