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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
Businessman
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Buda Pest
Andrew Stephen Grove
Andy Grove
András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
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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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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
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With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
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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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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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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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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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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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Make mistakes faster.
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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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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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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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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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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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