Andrew Grove

United States
2 Sep 1936 // 21 Mar 2016
Businessman, Engineer

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Much as we talk about Internet companies today, in five years' time there won't be any Internet companies. All companies will be Internet companies or they will be dead.

Speech, Los Angeles Times 3rd Annual Investment Strategies Conference, Los Angeles, California (1999)
I think there's going to be a lot of losers. There's no question that if you took a snapshot of the economy today and a snapshot of the economy five years from now, the lineup of participants are going to be very different. But just the same way as...the PC industry swept in and the semiconductor industry swept in, if I mention the starters, a lot of people would say 'Who?' A lot of the high fliers today are going to be 'Who?'

Speech, Los Angeles Times 3rd Annual Investment Strategies Conference, Los Angeles, California (1999)
You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
The essence of a company like Intel is execution and strategy. Intel, looked at in another way, is a three-legged stool. One leg is technology�design and silicon technology � another leg is manufacturing, and the third leg is marketing. Whenever Intel did well it was because the three legs were equal. Whenever one of those legs was shorter than the others, we wobbled.

Interview, Upside Magazine (1997)
Having a large business is not against the law. Achieving it in violation of fairly specifically prescribed codes of behavior is. So we don't worry about the grand concept of it. We don't worry about being big, we worry about not being big enough. But we are worried about playing by the rules�not just the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law.

Interview, Upside Magazine (1997)
Most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in standing still.

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Fortune (1993)
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.

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
I think making a name for yourself is a wrong objective...I would prefer to look for ways where you can make maximum contribution, and thatepends on two things: clearly what your skills are and, less clearly, what the activities that you truly enjoy are. By choosing occupations that you can get excited about you are likely to do your best work.

Interview, WebChat Broadcasting System (1996)
We live in an age in which the pace of technological change is pulsating ever faster, causing waves that spread outward toward all industries. This increased rate of change will have an impact on you, no matter what you do for a living. It will bring new competition from new ways of doing things, from corners that you don't expect.

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
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