60 Inspirational Andrew S. Grove Quotes (INTEL)

Top 10 Most Famous Andrew Grove Quotes (BEST)

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change. — The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of **change**.

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

Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customers leave them! — **Businesses** fail either because they leave their **customers** or because their customers leave them!

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. — 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.

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

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. — 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.

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

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

Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.

Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say “yes” to one thing you are inevitably saying “no” to another. — Remember too that your **time** is your one finite resource, and when you say “yes” to one thing you are inevitably saying “no” to another.

12 Inspirational Andrew Grove Quotes on Change and Success

“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

Strategic changes doesn't just start at the top. It starts with your calendar. — Strategic **changes** doesn’t just start at the top. It starts with your calendar.

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

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

A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. — A strategic inflection point is a **time** in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to **change**.

The ability to recognise that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise. — The ability to recognise that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate **action** before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise.

“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

Admitting that you need to learn something new is always difficult. It is even harder if you are a senior manager. — Admitting that you need to **learn** something new is always difficult. It is even harder if you are a senior manager.

People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early. — People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending **changes** early.

The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.

The greatest danger is in standing still.

My day always ends when I’m tired and ready to go home, not when I’m done. I am never done.

21 Wise Andrew Grove Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“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

Give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one. — Give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I’ll take the turbulent one.

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. — 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.

Figuring out what to do is important. But doing it and doing it well is equally important.

If you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. — If you’re wrong, you will die. But most companies don’t die because they are wrong; most die because they don’t commit themselves.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. — Stressing output is the key to improving **productivity**, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

The absolute truth is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it. — The absolute **truth** is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it.

Because it is easier to monitor something with which you are familiar, if you have a choice you should delegate those activities you know best.

I tend to believe Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, “Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.” — I tend to believe **Mark Twain** hit it on the head when he said, “Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.”

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.

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

As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again. — As we throw ourselves into raw **actions**, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again.

Take a bit of the future and make it your present. — Take a bit of the **future** and make it your present.

The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up and listen.

Values and behavioral norms are simply not transmitted easily by talk or memo, but are conveyed very effective by doing and doing visibly.

A common rule we should always try to heed is to detect and fix any problem at the lowest-value stage possible.

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy. — I really don’t have much **respect** for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy.

Measurement against a standard makes you think through WHY the results were what they were.

We managers get a little more obsolete every day.

3 Andrew Grove Quotes on Business and Intel

“I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.”
Andrew Grove

If you are a founder of a business, you understand the business implicitly. You understand it through your skin.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points. — Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel’s success in surviving strategic inflection points.

10 Andrew Grove Quotes on the Digital Age and Internet (TECHNOLOGY)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technology is both an end in itself and a means to other ends.

By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks. — By the late ’90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

Nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

4 Andrew Grove Quotes About Life

“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.”
Andrew Grove