Quotes from Andy Grove

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

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

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

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.

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

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

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

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

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.

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.

Make mistakes faster.

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.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.