Andy Grove's Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

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.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

Only the paranoid survive.

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

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

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

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.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.