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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

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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
Andy Grove
András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
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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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A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.
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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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Activity is not output.
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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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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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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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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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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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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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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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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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