45 Quotes by Andrew S. Grove

The most important role of managers is to create an environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in the marketplace. Fear plays a major role in creating and maintaining such passion. Fear of competition, fear of bankruptcy, fear of being wrong and fear of losing can all be powerful motivators.

Admitting that you need to learn something new is always difficult. It is even harder if you are a senior manager who is accustomed to the automatic deference which people accord you owing to your position. But if you don’t fight it, that very deference may become a wall that isolates you from learning new things. It all takes self-discipline.

Middle managers are the muscle and bone of every sizable organization, no matter how loose or “flattened” the hierarchy, but they are largely ignored despite their immense importance to our society and economy.

At Intel, we put ourselves through an annual strategic long-range planning effort in which we examine our future five years off. But what is really being influenced here? It is the next year – and only the next year.

Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.

My day always ends when I’m tired and ready to go home, not when I’m done. I am never done.

In Technology, whatever can be done will be done.

The key to survival is to learn to add more value – and.

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