Andrew Grove Quotes

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

"A strategic inflection point is a matter of life or death."

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

"A manager's work is never done."

"You have to be able to make tough decisions, even when they're unpopular."

"Strive for perfection but settle for speed."

"Crisis is the ultimate test of leadership."

"Your ego is an expensive liability."

"Output is the only metric that truly counts."

"Paranoia is a healthy state for a leader."

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

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

"Measure everything, or you manage nothing."

"Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure."

"The winners are those who stay awake at the wheel."

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

"The most important role of managers is to create an environment where people can work effectively."

"Never confuse activity with productivity."

"The key to survival is to be able to adapt to change."

"Information is the basis of all management action."

"Comfort is the first sign of impending irrelevance."

"Management is a craft that can be learned."

"Snow melts from the edges; watch the periphery."

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

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

"Execution is everything."

"The single most important task of a manager is to improve the output of the people they manage."

"Denial is the morphine of a dying business."

"Bad news is better than no news."

"Only the paranoid survive the shifting tides of business."

"The only constant in business is change."

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

"The goal of management is to achieve results."