Top Andy Grove Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Andy Grove Biography

Andrew Stephen 'Andy' Grove (born András István Gróf; 2 September 1936 – 21 March 2016) was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a 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, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors.

Read about Andy Grove in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Andy Grove Quotes

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

Anticipate, Fire, Plans, Team, Way

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Effort, Efforts, Focus, Mercilessly, Understand

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Assume, Career, Careers, Inspirational, Make, Moving

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

Business, Corporation, Focus, Skins, Values

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.

Buttons, Generation, Granted, Hitting, Parent, Thinking

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

Lowest, Possible, Problem, Process, Stage

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.

Attention, Coming, Feet, Internet

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.

Draw, Example, Healthy, Hundreds, Internet, Money

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly

Real, Thinking, Two, Act, Things, Course

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

Decision, Decisions, Investment, Wait, Waiting

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.

Actual, Firsts, Flow, Formal, Ordains, Steps

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Faster, Leadership, Pressure, Technology, Today

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, Thinking, Knowing, Corner, Pioneer, Big

Only the paranoid survive.

Paranoid, Survive

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

Sex, Thinking, Generations, Invented, Generation

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Business, Intel, Luck, Microsoft, Substitute

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

Age, Privacy, Problem, Problems

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

Demand, Everything, Internet, Supply And Demand

There are two options: adapt or die.

Adapt, Change, Die, Options, Two, Two Options

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Business, Careers, Matter, Proprietor, Sole

1