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
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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.
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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.
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(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region,
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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Competition, ... the best place in the world to trade electronically by 2002.
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The growth rate of Napster blew away any previous web site growth rate, approaching an order of magnitude,
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E-commerce does provide a very clear competitive advantage to companies that embrace it, ... Nothing can spur you on to be aggressive as much as seeing somebody who is outdistancing you.
I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.