110 Quotes by Andy Grove

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

Assume any career move you make won’t go smoothly. They won’t. But don’t look back.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel’s success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules – there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition – but it’s thorough and often brutal.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don’t wait for the picture to be clarified.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

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.

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

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.