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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

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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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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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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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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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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 future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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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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