Andrew Grove Quotes

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

Those above are going down, those below are going up.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

History is full of changings of the guard—some for the better, some for the worse.

The young business and professional men of this country must get together round the table, adopt methods that have proved sound in the past, adapt them to the changing needs of the times and, whenever possible, improve them.

The history of man is a graveyard of cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Rarely in the history of law have so few undone so much, so quickly.

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.

Nigeria was once a land of great hope and progress, a nation with immense resources at its disposal. But the Biafran War changed the course of Nigeria. In my view, it was a cataclysmic experience that changed the history of Africa.

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

XUV is a living proof of the value of MRV. In that sense, the XUV was a wonderful validation. The XUV grew along with MRV. As the institution was built, the product was created.