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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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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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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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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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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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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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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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