Act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.
—Andrew Grove
You have to pretend you’re 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
—Andrew Grove
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
—Andrew Grove
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
—Andrew Grove
Topics: Technology
Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.
—Andrew Grove
You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I’m advocating is—Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn’t plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events.
—Andrew Grove
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
—Andrew Grove
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
—Andrew Grove
Topics: Business
The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat is crucial to the future of an enterprise.
—Andrew Grove
In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.
—Andrew Grove
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.
—Andrew Grove
Topics: Time, Time Management
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
—Andrew Grove
Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.
—Andrew Grove
Try not to get too depressed in the part of the journey, because there’s a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can’t motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don’t know what you’re doing.
—Andrew Grove
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
—Andrew Grove
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
—Andrew Grove
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