Andy Grove
Andy Grove
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grovewas a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He was one of the founders and the CEO of Intel Corporation, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1936
care take-care
The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has
mistake making-mistakes faster
Make mistakes faster.
change order internet
I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
paranoid
Only the paranoid survive.
chemistry glad
I was glad I liked chemistry.
motivational work-ethic ethics
Activity is not output.
change two done
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.
people poverty kind
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?
wind lessons needs
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
sex thinking generations
Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
distance technology technological-change
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.
business luck microsoft
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
positive technology steel
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
demand internet supply-and-demand
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.