Andy Grove

Andrew Grove (born September 2, 1936) is the former president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Intel Corporation.

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• I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly …. And try not to get too depressed in the part of the journey, because there’s a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can’t motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don’t know what you’re doing.
  • In an unidentified book from Andy Grove, as quoted by Bob Sutton during an interview posted May 10, 2006 on Guy Kawasaki's blog.^{[specific citation needed]}

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them
  • After the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994^{[citation needed]}

• The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.
  • "Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars", Associated Press interview by Ken Thomas, June 27, 2008

• The personal computer ... went to individuals first before it went to corporations. ... The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers.
  • "Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars", Associated Press interview by Ken Thomas, June 27, 2008

External links

• Wikipedia: Intel Corporation