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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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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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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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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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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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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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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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Make mistakes faster.
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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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How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
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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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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
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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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Only the paranoid survive.
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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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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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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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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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