"You need to plan the way a fire……" — Andy Grove
"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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44 Quotes by Andy Grove
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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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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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the…
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one…
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I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More…
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
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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…
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who…
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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Make mistakes faster.
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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…
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There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate.…
— Lewis Black
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are…
— F. H. Bradley
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other…
— Buzz Aldrin
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Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a…
— Oleg Cassini
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money…
— Maimonides
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which…
— Agnes Repplier
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
— Colin Powell
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit…
— Sean Penn
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