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“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
-- Andy Grove

#Business #Failure #Inspire
“Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.”
-- Andy Grove

#Technology #Leader #Today
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Missing You #Business #Next Level
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Running #Children #Giving
“I was glad I liked chemistry.”
-- Andy Grove

#Chemistry #Glad
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Technology #Law #Tasks
“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.”
-- Andy Grove

#Thinking #Technology #Knowing
“Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.”
-- Andy Grove

#Technology #Answers #Problem
“How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.”
-- Andy Grove

#Communication #Determined #Communicate
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
-- Andy Grove

#Change #Reign #Chaos
“You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.”
-- Andy Grove

#Self Confidence #Effort #Action
“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”
-- Andy Grove

#Technology #Fundamentals #Done
“You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.”
-- Andy Grove

#Focus #Effort
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”
-- Andy Grove

#Good Company #Crisis #Great Company
“Make mistakes faster.”
-- Andy Grove

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Faster
“Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.”
-- Andy Grove

#Age #Privacy #Problem
“So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.”
-- Andy Grove

#Giving #World #Quiet
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Team #Fire #Shapes
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Feet #Attention #Internet
“The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change”
-- Andy Grove

#Wind #Needs #Lessons
“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”
-- Andy Grove

#Jobs #World #Hungry
“Every generation thinks that they invented sex.”
-- Andy Grove

#Sex #Thinking #Generations
“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”
-- Andy Grove

#Sunset #Technology #Internet
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Country #Tanks #Pennsylvania
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Business #Focus #Skins
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Change #Running #Demand
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Change #Two #Done
“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.”
-- Andy Grove

#Change #Order #Internet
“I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really”
-- Andy Grove

#Business #Believe #Internet
“Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?”
-- Andy Grove

#Positive #Technology #Steel

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12 Andy Grove Quotes From High Output Management

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