Andy Grove
Andy Grove
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grovewas a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He was one of the founders and the CEO of Intel Corporation, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1936
time office pieces
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.
communication determined communicate
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
focus effort
You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
waiting decision investment
Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
decision momentum danger
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.
demand internet supply-and-demand
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
technology winning flow
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
winning people important
The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
distance technology technological-change
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.
positive technology steel
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
change two done
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.
people poverty kind
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?
sex thinking generations
Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
wind lessons needs
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change