Andy Grove Quotes about Business

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

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

Success, Fear, Business

"Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Andy Grove

Missing You, Business, Next

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

Andy Grove

Business, Focus, Skins

"Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andy Grove

Business, Moving, Skills

Make mistakes faster.

Andy Grove

Business, Mistake, Making Mistakes

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Andy Grove

Business, Careers, Matter

You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

Andy Grove

Confidence, Business, Effort

"Andy Grove: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.