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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
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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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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
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The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.
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E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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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.
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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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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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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 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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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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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 Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
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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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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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