Andrew Grove Quotes

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint. . . [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.

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

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

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

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.

All of us in business have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability — and stability — we may have taken for granted.

In various bits and pieces, we have steered Intel from a start-up to one of the central companies of the information economy.

The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.

And try not to get too depressed in the part of the journey, because there’s a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can’t motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don’t know what you’re doing.

The personal computer... went to individuals first before it went to corporations... The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.