Andy Grove
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 hungryCollection: Jobs
I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.Collection: Mainstream
Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Feet
The 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 infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Confidence
A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.Collection: Eggs
The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.Collection: Care
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.Collection: Technology
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronymsCollection: People
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, reallyCollection: Business
Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.Collection: Girl
The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.Collection: Effort
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Real
How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?Collection: Leadership
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.Collection: Believe
Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.Collection: Distance
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?Collection: People
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.Collection: Problem
Every generation thinks that they invented sex.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Time
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.Collection: Inspirational
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?Collection: Positive
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.Collection: Business
You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.Collection: Two
E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.Collection: Hype
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: Momentum