Andrew Grove on Business Quotes

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

"Paranoia is a healthy state for a leader."

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

"Listen to the Cassandras in your organization."

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

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

"Define the problem correctly or you will solve the wrong thing."

"A strategy without action is merely a hallucination."

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

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

"Business is a team sport."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The goal of management is to achieve results."

"Your career belongs to you and no one else."

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

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

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

"Execution is everything."

"Information is the basis of all management action."

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

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

"The person who says it cannot be done is already losing."

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

"The only constant in business is change."