Quotes by Andy Grove

“So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I´ll take the turbulent one.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.”

“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”

“In terms of interest, in terms of press attention, in terms of concern, [the Internet phenomenon] is growing, ... I think the next move is to bite the bullet and spend the money that is required to build the necessary infrastructure for e-commerce.”

“Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.”

“In my career [the PC] is the defining product of the time. Just about the time we could have ridden off into the sunset, it enabled the Internet, which tripled its significance.”

“(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region,”

“We are intending a very, very strong make over of our entire product line as the year goes on,”

“a [computer] bit at a time.”

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

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.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.