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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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Computer Scientist
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Andrew Stephen Grove
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András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
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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 Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.
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Most companies don't die because they are wrong they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
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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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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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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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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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How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.
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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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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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