Andrew Grove Quotes

Andrew Grove (21)

Birth:	2nd September, 1936
Nationality:	American, Hungarian
Profession:	Advisor, Author, Businessman, Chief Executive Officer, Engineer

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

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• The Internet doesn’t change everything. It doesn’t change supply and demand.

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• There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

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• I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

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• I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

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• I wasn’t cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

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• I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

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• Most Americans probably aren’t aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

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• Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

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• Pickups, S.U.V.’s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

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• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

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• Growth is kinda built into everyone’s genes. It’s built into management’s genes, the salesman’s genes, the investors’ desires. People expect companies to grow.

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• Only the paranoid survive.

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• I was glad I liked chemistry.

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• A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

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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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• So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I’ll take the turbulent one.

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• If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

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• 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.

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

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