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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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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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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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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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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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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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Only the paranoid survive.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.
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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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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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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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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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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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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 understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
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