Andrew Grove

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

These companies have money thrown at them. And that's good, but it's also dangerous. It's good because it allows them to do big things, and it is dangerous because companies who have too much money don't have the market discipline of learning to operate with the money that they bring in as part of their business... and developing a pattern or focusing that that discipline brings.

Speech, Los Angeles Times 3rd Annual Investment Strategies Conference, Los Angeles, California (1999)

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