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
healthy dollars excess
The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.
senior zero devil
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.
desktop mainstream appearing
I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
people acronyms computer
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
change running demand
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.
ambition hard-work elbows
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
technology answers complacency
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
complicated problem no-problem
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
careers journalism appeals
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
moving skills careers
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.
inspirational moving careers
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
change two two-options
There are two options: adapt or die.
giving world quiet
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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.