Andy Grove Quotes

Andy Grove delivers blunt, business-savvy insights on crisis and innovation.

17 quotes

  1. {{quote|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 :. 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.

  2. 'Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them' ---After the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994

  3. The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life. [1]

  4. 'Andy giveth, and Bill taketh away'

  5. 'PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms'

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

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

  8. The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.

  9. 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.

  10. A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

  11. I was glad I liked chemistry.

  12. Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

  13. No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

  14. 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.

  15. Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.'