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 More Quotes by Andy Grove More Quotes From Andy Grove No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated. Andy Grove no-problem problem complicated What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed? Andy Grove poverty kind people Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified. Andy Grove investment decision waiting PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms Andy Grove acronyms computer people Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad? Andy Grove technology steel positive I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it. Andy Grove technology knowing thinking Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible. Andy Grove stage problem process 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 Andy Grove learning jobs knowledge By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks. Andy Grove internet feet attention Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. Andy Grove privacy problem age Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back. Andy Grove careers inspirational moving A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal. Andy Grove journalism careers lost 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. Andy Grove growth desire people Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents. Andy Grove buttons parent thinking Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points. Andy Grove maintaining strategic culture 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. Andy Grove priorities should firsts Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid. Andy Grove girl stupid boys Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. Andy Grove internet-users sunset technology 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. Andy Grove pennsylvania tanks country In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it. Andy Grove flow steps firsts
