Andrew Grove
United States
2 Sep 1936 // 21 Mar 2016
Businessman, Engineer
2 Sep 1936 // 21 Mar 2016
Businessman, Engineer
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)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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