The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. Andy Grove More Quotes by Andy Grove More Quotes From Andy Grove Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. Andy Grove business fear success 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. Andy Grove next business missing-you You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event. Andy Grove events team fire Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. Andy Grove technology leadership today A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. Andy Grove focus skins business Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. Andy Grove good-company bad-company crisis Make mistakes faster. Andy Grove making-mistakes business mistake How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood. Andy Grove communicate determined communication It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work. Andy Grove running giving children You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it. Andy Grove effort focus I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left. Andy Grove successful believe people There are two options: adapt or die. Andy Grove two-options change two A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET. Andy Grove eggs goal watches If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in. Andy Grove leader reality facts Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers. Andy Grove delay technology winning Activity is not output. Andy Grove ethics work-ethic motivational Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor. Andy Grove careers business matter The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it. Andy Grove news effort should Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world. Andy Grove technological-change distance technology Only the paranoid survive. Andy Grove paranoid
