Andrew Grove on Business Quotes

"Your task is to manage your own career as if you were a business."

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

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

"The goal of management is to achieve results."

"Business is a team sport."

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

"The most important thing is to focus on the things that matter most."

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

"Constructive confrontation is the key to a healthy corporate culture."

"Management is not just about making decisions; it's about making sure those decisions are executed."

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

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

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

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

"Execution is everything."

"If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete."

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

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

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

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

"To build anything, you have to have a clear mental image of what you are trying to build."

"The point is that your team is your output."

"You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed."

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

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

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

"Information is the basis of all management action."

"The output of a manager is the output of the organizational units under his or her supervision or influence."

"The only constant in business is change."

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

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

"Management is a craft that can be learned."

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