Andy Grove Quotes
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.
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.
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.
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.
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
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
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.
The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
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?
I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
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.
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.
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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.
Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?