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.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

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

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

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

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.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.