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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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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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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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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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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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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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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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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry
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I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
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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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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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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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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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PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
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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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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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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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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
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