Andy Grove Quotes
19 quotes from Andy Grove — Former CEO of Intel who transformed it into the world's largest semiconductor company..
“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.”
“Only the paranoid survive.”
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
“There are two options: adapt or die.”
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
“I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.”
“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.”
“If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.”
“How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.”
“The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.”
“Friends told me that all I needed was ability. Americans don't know how lucky they are.”
“If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?”
“You have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don't know what you're doing.”
“There are waves and then there's a tsunami. 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.”
“Decisions don't wait; investment decisions or personal decisions don't wait for that picture to be clarified. You have to make them when you have to make them. And try not to get too depressed in the journey, because there's a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can't motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don't know what you're doing.”
“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”
“I told him that I was going to leave. And he says, I want to come, too. That was about the length of the conversation.”
