110 Quotes by Andy Grove

By the late ’90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

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?

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

I’m a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

I don’t see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.

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.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.