110 Quotes by Andy Grove

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.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

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

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

Make mistakes faster.

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.

Only the paranoid survive.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

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