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
technology leader today
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
good-company bad-company crisis
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
technology thinking knowing
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
technology winning flow
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
paranoid
Only the paranoid survive.
technology fundamentals done
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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.
technology answers complacency
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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.