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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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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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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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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
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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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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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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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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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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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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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I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
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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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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry
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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
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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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