Andy Grove Quotes
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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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Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
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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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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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What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
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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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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
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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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Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
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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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(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region.
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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
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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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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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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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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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Make mistakes faster.
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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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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.