I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. Andy Grove More Quotes by Andy Grove More Quotes From Andy Grove The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example. Andy Grove healthy money example The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen. Andy Grove money change running 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. Andy Grove confidence effort business A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. Andy Grove technology done fundamentals E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live. Andy Grove deployment hype people 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. Andy Grove lines technology law Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal. Andy Grove thorough warfare competition How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles? Andy Grove circles leader leadership I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really Andy Grove internet business believe You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die. Andy Grove choices two world You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way. Andy Grove hard-work ambition needs It's not that you shouldn't plan but you should not regard your plans to be anything more than a baseline model of what might happen. Andy Grove company-news I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.' Andy Grove live leave respect people We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on. Andy Grove new cyber internet time I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares? Andy Grove dead me life people I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease. Andy Grove become child disease want When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off. Andy Grove some how business change
