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
audience blair british hear internet morning people sound talked turned
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.
hype people deployment
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.
people growth desire
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.
people littles achieve
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
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?
believe successful people
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.
winning people important
The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
people acronyms computer
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
best competition trade
Competition, ... the best place in the world to trade electronically by 2002.
broad
(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region,
absence apathy lack surprised today
I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
advantage aggressive clear companies embrace provide seeing somebody spur
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.
ambition hard-work elbows
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.
change reign chaos
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.