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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
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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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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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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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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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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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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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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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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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There are two options: adapt or die.
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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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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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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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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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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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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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