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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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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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Make mistakes faster.
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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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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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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 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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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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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 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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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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