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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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András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
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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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You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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Make mistakes faster.
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The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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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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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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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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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.
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Activity is not output.
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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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