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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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Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.
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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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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.
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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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There are two options: adapt or die.
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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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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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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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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.
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Only the paranoid survive.
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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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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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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.
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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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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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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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