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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
Businessman
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Andrew Stephen Grove
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András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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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?
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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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 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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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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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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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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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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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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