Andy Grove Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

Only the paranoid survive.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

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.

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

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

Make mistakes faster.

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 fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.