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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 Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.
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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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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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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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You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
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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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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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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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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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Only the paranoid survive.
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Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.
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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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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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