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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The growth rate of Napster blew away any previous web site growth rate, approaching an order of magnitude,
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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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.
time office pieces
Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
waiting decision investment
Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
technology winning flow
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
positive technology steel
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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.
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.