Andy Grove Quotes

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

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

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.

Activity is not output.

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?

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

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.

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.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

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.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

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.

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.

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.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

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.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

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.

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.

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.

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.