Andrew Grove Quotes

I'm not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The common denominator for success is work.

Some people serve with pride - because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!