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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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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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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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A corporation is a living organism it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
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Make mistakes faster.
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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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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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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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Activity is not output.
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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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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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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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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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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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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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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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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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Only the paranoid survive.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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