Quote

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

Andy Grove

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
Businessman
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Writer
Buda Pest
Andrew Stephen Grove
Andy Grove
András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
Faced
Brutal
Sets
Leaders
Leader
Facts
Reality

More quotes by Andy Grove

Image
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
Andy Grove
Image
The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
Andy Grove
Image
Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
Andy Grove
Image
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
Andy Grove
Image
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Andy Grove
Image
I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.
Andy Grove
Image
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.
Andy Grove
Image
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
Andy Grove
Image
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
Andy Grove
Image
Activity is not output.
Andy Grove
Image
Make mistakes faster.
Andy Grove
Image
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
Andy Grove
Image
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
Andy Grove
Image
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.
Andy Grove
Image
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
Andy Grove
Image
I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
Andy Grove
Image
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.
Andy Grove
Image
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
Andy Grove
Image
You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Andy Grove
Image
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove