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1 " Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful. "
― Andrew S. Grove , Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation
2 " Business success contains the seeds of its destruction. "
3 " The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness. "
4 " Don't differentiate without a difference. "
5 " But data are about the past, and strategic inflection points are about the future. "
6 " The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change "
7 " Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them ! "
8 " Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis. "
9 " Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say “yes” to one thing you are inevitably saying “no” to another. "
― Andrew S. Grove , High Output Management
10 " strategic changes doesn't just start at the top. It starts with your calender "
11 " The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most. "
12 " if you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in Standing still "
13 " But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this. "
14 " In Technology, whatever can be done will be done "
15 " The absolute truth is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it. "
16 " 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 "
17 " How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles? "
18 " People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner. "
― Andrew S. Grove
19 " People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early "
20 " 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. "
