Andy Grove Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Flow, Firsts, Steps

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• The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

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  Wind, Needs, Lessons

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• I was glad I liked chemistry.

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  Chemistry, Glad

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• Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

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  Culture, Maintaining, Strategic

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• I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

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  Change, Order, Internet

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• 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.

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  Competition, Warfare, Thorough

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• 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.

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  People, Growth, Desire

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

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  Age, Privacy, Problem

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Change, Running, Money

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Country, Tanks, Pennsylvania

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• 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

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  Jobs, Learning, Knowledge

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• I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

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  Mainstream, Desktop, Decades

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Nice, Teenager

  "Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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

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  Demand, Internet, Supply And Demand

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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

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  Sunset, Technology, Internet Users

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• 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.

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  Feet, Attention, Internet

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Parent, Buttons

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• 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.

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  Technology, Law, Lines

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• A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

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  Careers, Journalism, Lost

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• 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.

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  Money, Healthy, Example

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Priorities, Firsts, Should

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