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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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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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Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
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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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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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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 future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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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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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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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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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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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much 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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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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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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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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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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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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