Quotes from Andy Grove

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

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

Activity is not output.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

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

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.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy Grove, CEO, Intel

Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-market principles over planned economies. So we stick with this belief, largely oblivious to emerging evidence that while free markets beat planned economies, there may be room for a modification that is even better.

Fight like you're right, listen like you're wrong.

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

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.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

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.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

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

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.

I was glad I liked chemistry.