Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Andrew Grove (Hungarian-born American Businessperson)

Andrew Stephen Grove (1936–2016) was a Hungarian-born American businessperson, engineer, and author. As a pioneer in the semiconductor industry, Grove was arguably the most influential tech executive that Silicon Valley has ever seen. He achieved fame and success in his adopted country—an outstanding modern-day immigrant success story.

Born András István Gróf to a middle-class Jewish family in Hungary, Grove survived Hungary’s Nazi occupation before fleeing Soviet repression. He arrived in New York in 1957 with less than $20 in his pocket and settled in with relatives. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York and got a doctorate in chemical engineering from Berkeley before joining Intel as its first employee in 1968 and serving as CEO 1987–98. He helped transform Intel into the world’s leading manufacturer of semiconductors. During this tenure as CEO 1987–98, Intel’s stock price rose 32% a year. After relinquishing his role as Intel’s CEO in 1998 and as Chairman of the Board in 2005, he mentored many of Silicon Valley’s technology entrepreneurs and leaders.

Grove was famous for his rigorous, no-nonsense, confrontational, non-hierarchical management style; his approach still dominates the Silicon Valley culture. He zealously demanded high performance. In 2004, the Wharton School named him the most influential business leader of the past quarter-century, over Microsoft’s Bill Gates, General Electric’s Jack Welch, and Walmart’s Sam Walton.

Grove was also a public speaker and a prolific author of two bestselling autobiographies, Swimming Across (2001) and Only the Paranoid Survive (1996.)

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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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