Top 50 Andy Grove Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only the paranoid survive.”

— Andy Grove

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2. “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

— Andy Grove

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3. “There are two options: adapt or die.”

— Andy Grove

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4. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”

— Andy Grove

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5. “Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”

— Andy Grove

6. “Activity is not output.”

— Andy Grove

7. “How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.”

— Andy Grove

8. “Make mistakes faster.”

— Andy Grove

9. “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

10. “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

11. “The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.”

— Andy Grove

12. “You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.”

— Andy Grove

13. “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

14. “There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.”

— Andy Grove

15. “A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”

— Andy Grove

16. “If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.”

— Andy Grove

17. “You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.”

— Andy Grove

18. “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

19. “You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.”

— Andy Grove

20. “Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.”

— Andy Grove

21. “Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.”

— Andy Grove

22. “Most companies don’t die because they are wrong; they die because they don’t commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.”

— Andy Grove

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23. “Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.”

— Andy Grove

24. “Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.”

— Andy Grove

25. “No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.”

— Andy Grove

26. “The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.”

— Andy Grove

27. “PCMCIA – People can’t memorize computer industries acronyms.”

— Andy Grove

28. “Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.”

— Andy Grove

29. “The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.”

— Andy Grove

30. “I was glad I liked chemistry.”

— Andy Grove

31. “So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I’ll take the turbulent one.”

— Andy Grove

32. “Technology happens, it’s not good, it’s not bad. Is steel good or bad?”

— Andy Grove

33. “I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.”

— Andy Grove

34. “It’s not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can’t run your family like a company. It doesn’t work.”

— Andy Grove

35. “I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.”

— Andy Grove

36. “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

37. “The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.”

— Andy Grove

38. “The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.”

— Andy Grove

39. “How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?”

— Andy Grove

40. “The Internet doesn’t change everything. It doesn’t change supply and demand.”

— Andy Grove

41. “Most Americans probably aren’t aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.”

— Andy Grove

42. “E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can’t even glimpse it’s potential in changing the way people work and live.”

— Andy Grove

43. “Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”

— Andy Grove

44. “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.”

— Andy Grove

45. “Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules – there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition – but it’s thorough and often brutal.”

— Andy Grove

46. “Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel’s success in surviving strategic inflection points.”

— Andy Grove

47. “Assume any career move you make won’t go smoothly. They won’t. But don’t look back.”

— Andy Grove

48. “By the late ’90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.”

— Andy Grove

49. “If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.”

— Andy Grove

50. “Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.”

— Andy Grove