Andy Grove

“Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

“You need to plan the way a fire department plans: It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

“Selectivity - the determination to choose what we will attempt to get

done and what we won't - is the only way out of the panic that

excessive demands on our time can create.”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

“The absolute truth is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it.”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

“Remember that by saying “yes”—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying “no” to something else.”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

“Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction.”

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

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

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

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

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

"Activity is not output."

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

"The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere."

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

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

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

"PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms."

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

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

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

"Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible."

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

"The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has."

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)

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

— Andy Grove (1936-2016)