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“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.”

Andrew S. Grove

Cited in: " Andy Grove Tells The Truth About What Great Leaders Do http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/03/andy_grove_tell.html." bobsutton.typepad.com/my weblog. by Bob Sutton, March 11, 2007. New millennium, Harvard Business School Press conference, 2002

“By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint... [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.”

Andrew S. Grove

Prologue: Grove summarized his first twenty years of life in Hungary in his memoirs.
New millennium, Swimming Across: a Memoir, 2001

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

Andrew S. Grove

Attributed to Andy Grove in: Ciarán Parker (2006) The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business. p. 70
New millennium

“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”

Andrew S. Grove

High Output Management

“I couldn't afford luxuries like embarrassment”

Andrew S. Grove

Swimming Across: A Memoir

“The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change”

Andrew S. Grove

Source: Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove Quotes about business

“All of us in business have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability — and stability — we may have taken for granted.”

Andrew S. Grove

Andrew Grove in: " Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html?_r=0", New York Times, March 26, 2016 New millennium

“Each company, ruggedly individualistic, does its best to expand efficiently and improve its own profitability. However, our pursuit of our individual businesses, which often involves transferring manufacturing and a great deal of engineering out of the country, has hindered our ability to bring innovations to scale at home. Without scaling, we don't just lose jobs—we lose our hold on new technologies. Losing the ability to scale will ultimately damage our capacity to innovate.”

Andrew S. Grove

Andrew Grove, " Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-01/andy-grove-how-america-can-create-jobs", Bloomberg News, July 1, 2010 New millennium

“Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.”

Andrew S. Grove

Andrew Grove (1999) cited in: George M. Dupuy, ‎David H. Dupuy (2004) Career preparation: a transition guide for students. p. 4
1980s - 1990s

Andrew S. Grove Quotes

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

Andrew S. Grove

1995, p. 229; As cited in: Jay W. Rojews (2004) International Perspectives on Workforce Education and Development. p. xi
1980s - 1990s, High Output Management (1983)

“In various bits and pieces, we have steered Intel from a start-up to one of the central companies of the information economy.”

Andrew S. Grove

Andrew Grove, in: " 1997 Technology Leader of the Year http://www.industryweek.com/companies-amp-executives/1997-technology-leader-yearandy-grove-building-information-age-legacy", IndustryWeek.com, December 15, 1997 1980s - 1990s

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

Andrew S. Grove

Attributed to Andrew S. Grove in: William J. Baumol et al (2007) Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth. p. 228
New millennium

“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 S. Grove

Cited in: Roger Martin, ‎Karen Christensen (2013) Rotman on Design. p. 213
New millennium, Harvard Business School Press conference, 2002

“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.”

Andrew S. Grove

1980s - 1990s
Source: Computer Decisions Vol. 16 (1984). p. 126

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

Andrew S. Grove

Andy Grove, December 1994; cited in: Albert Yu (1998) Creating the digital future. p. 93 : After the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994
1980s - 1990s

“Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?”

Andrew S. Grove

Time, TIME: Man Of The Year, Walter, Isaacson, 1997-12-29 http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/grove/opener1.html, 1980s - 1990s

“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 S. Grove

Andrew Grove, in: " What I've Learned: Andy Grove http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500/", Esquire magazine, May 1, 2000 New millennium

“Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.”

Andrew S. Grove

Andy Grove coins his own law, Michael Kanellos, CNET, 2005-05-18, 2012-08-13 http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5712202-7.html, New millennium

“The personal computer… went to individuals first before it went to corporations… The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers.”

Andrew S. Grove

New millennium, AP Interview: Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars, 2008

“The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.”

Andrew S. Grove

New millennium, AP Interview: Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars, 2008

“When I came to Intel, I was scared to death. I left a very secure job where I knew what I was doing and started running R&D for a brand new venture in untried territory. It was terrifying.”

Andrew S. Grove

1980s - 1990s Source: Andrew Grove (1993), cited in: " Andy Grove, Valley Veteran Who Founded Intel, Dies at 79 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-22/andy-grove-taught-silicon-valley-how-to-do-business-dies-at-79," Bloomberg.com, March 21, 2016

“You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is — Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events.”

Andrew S. Grove

1995, p. 229; As cited in: Cristina Chaminade, ‎Bino Catasús (2007) Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization.. p. 94
1980s - 1990s, High Output Management (1983)