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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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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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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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 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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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.
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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
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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 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.
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E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.