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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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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
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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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Only the paranoid survive.
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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
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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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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 Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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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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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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There are two options: adapt or die.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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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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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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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
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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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