Andy Grove Quotes

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

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

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

Only the paranoid survive.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

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

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work – and masses of unemployed?

Most companies don’t die because they are wrong; they die because they don’t commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.