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. — Andy Grove

The Internet doesn’t change everything. It doesn’t change supply and demand. — Andy Grove

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. — Andy Grove

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

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

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated. — Andy Grove

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. — Andy Grove

There are two options: adapt or die. — Andy Grove

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

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

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

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

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

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace. — Andy Grove

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

Bad companies are destroyed by crises; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them. — Andy Grove

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

The second rule that Gates, Grove, and Jobs embraced was to make bold bets, but without betting the company. — David B. Yoffie

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time. — Andy Grove

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

We are now living on Internet time. It’s a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on. — Andy Grove

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers. — Andy Grove