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
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Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
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I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
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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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A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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Competition, ... the best place in the world to trade electronically by 2002.
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(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region,
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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 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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E-commerce does provide a very clear competitive advantage to companies that embrace it, ... Nothing can spur you on to be aggressive as much as seeing somebody who is outdistancing you.
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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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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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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.