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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

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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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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
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Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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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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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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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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Only the paranoid survive.
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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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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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
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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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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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