Quotes By Andy Grove

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

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. 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.

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.

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

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

Only the paranoid survive.

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.

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 was glad I liked chemistry.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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