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
motivational work-ethic ethics
Activity is not output.
chemistry glad
I was glad I liked chemistry.
paranoid
Only the paranoid survive.
change order internet
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.
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.
change reign chaos
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
flow firsts steps
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.
sunset technology internet-users
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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.