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
Andy Grove quotes about
paranoid
Only the paranoid survive.
self-confidence effort action
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.
competition warfare thorough
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.
leadership circles leader
How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
technology fundamentals done
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
problem process stage
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
hype people deployment
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.
maintaining culture has-beens
Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
desktop mainstream appearing
I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
technology answers complacency
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
careers journalism appeals
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
feet attention internet
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.
mistake making-mistakes faster
Make mistakes faster.
technology law tasks
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.