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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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Andrew Stephen Grove
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Andras Istvan Grof
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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.
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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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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.
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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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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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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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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
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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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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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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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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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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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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
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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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