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1936–2016 United States
Andrew Stephen Grove (born András István Gróf; September 2, 1936—March 21, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author, known as former president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Intel Corporation.
United States Businesspeople Also known as: Andy Grove, Grove, Andy
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Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.
Andrew Grove (1999)
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
In various bits and pieces, we have steered Intel from a start-up to one of the central companies of the information economy.
You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
High Output Management (1983)
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
to Andy Grove in: Ciarán Parker (2006)
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.
Computer Decisions Vol. 16 (1984)
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
High Output Management (1983)
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
to Andrew S. Grove in: William J. Baumol et al (2007)
The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.
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.
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.
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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 Grove (1993)
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
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