Andy Grove
I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Change
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.Collection: Failure
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.Collection: Age
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Technology
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.Collection: Leadership
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.
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.
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
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.
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
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.
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.
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
I was glad I liked chemistry.
When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.
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.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.Collection: Good Company
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.Collection: Communication
There are two options: adapt or die.Collection: Change
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.Collection: Change
Activity is not output.Collection: Motivational
You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.Collection: Focus
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.Collection: Problem
Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.Collection: Decision
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.Collection: Business
If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Team
The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.Collection: Winning
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.Collection: Business
Make mistakes faster.Collection: Business
Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.Collection: Decision
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 is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.Collection: Senior
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.Collection: Hard Work
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Change
In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.Collection: Flow
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of changeCollection: Wind
Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.Collection: Culture
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.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Competition