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Andy Grove
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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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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
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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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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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A corporation is a living organism it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
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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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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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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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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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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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What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
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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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Most companies don't die because they are wrong they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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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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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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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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How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
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