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Andy Grove

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Leaders have to act more quickly today, as pressure arrives faster, says Andy Grove. He warns that privacy is a huge problem in the electronic age, and he credits a strong company culture for helping Intel survive big strategic shifts.

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Andrew "Andy" Stephen Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel Corporation.

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About Andy Grove

Andrew "Andy" Stephen Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel Corporation. He left Hungary during the 1956 revolution at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education. He was the third employee and eventual third CEO of Intel, transforming the company into the world's largest semiconductor company.

Quotes by Andy Grove

There are two options: adapt or die.

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Only the paranoid survive.

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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

Change

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Activity is not output.

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I was glad I liked chemistry.

Chemistry

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Make mistakes faster.

Business

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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

Brutal

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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

Care

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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Business

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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

Generation

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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

Change

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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Barriers

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Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Culture

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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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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Internet

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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…

Attention

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I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever,…

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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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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

Customer

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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.…

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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…

Business

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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.…

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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…

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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by…

Change

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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…

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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…

Conviction

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I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates…

Believer

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“Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free…

Capitalism

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Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world.…

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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 big value…

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There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil…

Big picture

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In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must…

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Acronyms

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Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much 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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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

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