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Andrew Grove

19 quotes

• “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.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In: Computer Decisions Vol. 16 (1984). p. 126

• “When I came to Intel, I was scared to death. I left a very secure job where I knew what I was doing and started running R&D for a brand new venture in untried territory. It was terrifying.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andrew Grove (1993), cited in: "Andy Grove, Valley Veteran Who Founded Intel, Dies at 79," Bloomberg.com, March 21, 2016

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andy Grove, December 1994; cited in: Albert Yu (1998) Creating the digital future. p. 93 : After the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994

• “Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andrew Grove, in: "1997 Technology Leader of the Year", IndustryWeek.com, December 15, 1997

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andrew Grove (1999) cited in: George M. Dupuy, ‎David H. Dupuy (2004) Career preparation: a transition guide for students. p. 4

• “You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is — Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 1995, p. 229; As cited in: Cristina Chaminade, ‎Bino Catasús (2007) Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization.. p. 94

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 1995, p. 229; As cited in: Jay W. Rojews (2004) International Perspectives on Workforce Education and Development. p. xi

• “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.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andrew Grove, in: "What I've Learned: Andy Grove", Esquire, May 1, 2000

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed to Andy Grove in: Ciarán Parker (2006) The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business. p. 70

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed to Andrew S. Grove in: William J. Baumol et al (2007) Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth. p. 228

• “Each company, ruggedly individualistic, does its best to expand efficiently and improve its own profitability. However, our pursuit of our individual businesses, which often involves transferring manufacturing and a great deal of engineering out of the country, has hindered our ability to bring innovations to scale at home. Without scaling, we don't just lose jobs—we lose our hold on new technologies. Losing the ability to scale will ultimately damage our capacity to innovate.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andrew Grove, "Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs", Bloomberg News, July 1, 2010

• “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.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Andrew Grove in: "Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley", The New York Times, March 26, 2016

• “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.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cited in: Roger Martin, ‎Karen Christensen (2013) Rotman on Design. p. 213

• “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.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cited in: "Andy Grove Tells The Truth About What Great Leaders Do." bobsutton.typepad.com/my weblog. by Bob Sutton, March 11, 2007.

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

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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.”

  Andrew Grove (1936–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source