Andrew Grove Quotes

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

The future is now.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

Globalization is the speed of light.

No particular technology lasts for long.

Please, join the modern world.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.