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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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Computer Scientist
Engineer
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Andrew Stephen Grove
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András István Gróf
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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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Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the on button on the television is to their parents.
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Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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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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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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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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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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By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
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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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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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Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
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Activity is not output.
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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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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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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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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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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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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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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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