Andy Grove

Businessman

26 Quotes

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

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

I was glad I liked chemistry.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

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

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

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

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

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

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