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

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

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Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author 1936–2016

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