Andrew Grove Quotes

"Measure everything, or you manage nothing."

"Your ego is an expensive liability."

"The most successful companies are those that are able to adapt to change quickly."

"Make your mistakes while they are still cheap to fix."

"Paranoia is a healthy state for a leader."

"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them."

"Today's success is the enemy of tomorrow's innovation."

"Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos."

"Ambiguity is the enemy of execution."

"You must kill your own business model before a competitor does."

"The key to success is to be able to focus on the long term."

"The most important thing is to have a clear vision of where you want to go."

"The only way to stay ahead of the competition is to be constantly innovating."

"The most important decisions you make are the ones that affect the people in your organization."

"You cannot wait for total clarity to make a decision."

"A strategy without action is merely a hallucination."

"Strategic inflection points can be caused by technological change, but they are more than technological change."

"The only constant in business is change."

"The cost of indecision is higher than the cost of being wrong."

"The best leaders are those who are able to inspire their employees to achieve great things."

"Crisis is the ultimate test of leadership."

"Listen to the Cassandras in your organization."

"Denial is the morphine of a dying business."

"A manager's work is never done."

"The business world is a world of constant change."

"Output is the only metric that truly counts."

"Discipline is the bridge between strategy and results."

"In business, you have to be willing to take risks."

"High-leverage activities are those that have a high impact on the output of the organization."

"A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change."

"Technology changes ten times faster than human behavior."

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

"A manager's output = the output of his organization + the output of the neighboring organizations under his influence."