Andy GroveSuccess breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. ✨ Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth. Book by Robert E Litan and… ▶372Reading
Andy GroveBy the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.361Love
Andy GrovePrivacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. ✨ Andy Grove: What I've Learned by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.341Truth
Andy GroveNot all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution. ✨ Andy Grove: What I've Learned. Interview with Mike Sager, www.esqui… ▶375Politics
Andy GroveThere 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 declin… ▶355Time
Andy GroveTechnology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad? ✨ Andrew Grove: Man Of The Year by Walter Isaacson, time.com. December 29, 1997.322Time
Andy GroveYou 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… ▶312Politics
Andy GroveLet chaos reign, then rein in chaos.312Life
Andy GroveThe 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.302Hope
Andy GroveCongress 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.271Politics
Andy GroveMake mistakes faster.316Humanity
Andy GroveThere are two options: adapt or die. ✨ High Output Management. Book by Andrew Grove, p. 229, 1995.251DeathReading
Andy GroveYou 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 respondin… ▶339Thought
Andy GroveEvery generation thinks that they invented sex.296Thought
Andy GroveIt'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 com… ▶274Time
Andy GroveI have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really ✨ Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance… ▶231HopeTime
Andy GroveLeaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.254Reading
Andy GroveA 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 tran… ▶232Life
Andy GroveAccept 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.222Sadness
Andy GroveHow well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.3010Sadness
Andy GroveMost 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.204Time
Andy GroveThe 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… ▶238Life
Andy GroveI'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… ▶238Truth
Andy GroveJust as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.239Reflection
Andy GroveSo give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.206Philosophy
Andy GroveA fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. ✨ The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business. Book by Ciarán Parke, p. … ▶229ReadingThought
Andy GroveBad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. ✨ Said in December 1994. Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets o… ▶187HopeReadingTime
Andy GroveI 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, b… ▶154HumanityThought
Andy GroveThe boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastru… ▶155Politics
Andy GroveIf 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 … ▶139Politics
