Andrew S. Grove Quotes & Sayings

#1. Remember that by saying "yes" - to projects, a course of action, or whatever - you are implicitly saying "no" to something else.

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#2. If you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself

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#3. In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.

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#4. Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

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#5. Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.

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#6. The key to survival is to learn to add more value - and

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#7. The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.

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#8. How you handle your own time is, in my view, the single most important aspect of being a role model and leader.

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#9. What is the role of the supervisor in the staff meeting - a leader, observer, expediter, questioner, decision-maker? The answer, of course, is all of them. Please

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#10. Turning the workplace into a playing field can turn our subordinates into "athletes" dedicated to performing at the limit of their capabilities - the key to making our team consistent winners.

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#11. we confused the manager's general competence and maturity with his task-relevant maturity.

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#12. You need to plan the way a fire department plans: It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

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#13. The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

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#14. But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.

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#15. Peter Drucker quotes a definition of an entrepreneur as someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield.

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#16. Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.

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#17. Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

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#18. There is no question that having standards and believing in them and staffing an administrative unit objectively using forecasted workloads will help you to maintain and enhance productivity.

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#19. Don't differentiate without a difference.

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#20. In other words, the output of the planning process is the decisions made and the actions taken as a result of the process.

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#21. A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end

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#22. Are you trying new ideas, new techniques, and new technologies, and I mean personally trying them, not just reading about them? Or are you waiting for others to figure out how they can re-engineer your workplace - and you out of that workplace?

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