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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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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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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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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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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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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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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
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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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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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Only the paranoid survive.
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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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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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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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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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