Andy Grove

"You have to be paranoid to survive in the technology business."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure."

"Only the paranoid survive."

"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them."

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence."

"When in doubt, think about the customer."

"The management of a business is about control and improvement of operations."

"Your career is a marathon, not a sprint."

"Give rewards and sanctions both because of - and in spite of - the metrics, use human judgment."

"The most important thing is execution."

"If you want to be relevant, you have to have an opinion."

"The more successful you are, the more you have to be paranoid."

"To understand a company, you have to understand what it is fundamentally good at."

"Your title makes you a manager, your people decide if you are a leader."

"You cannot manage what you do not measure."

"The most important thing in business is the customer."

"Be paranoid about falling behind the competition."

"Strategic planning should be a process, not an event."

"The key to success is to find out what your comparative advantage is."

"A good manager leads, does not command."

"If you are not paranoid, you don't fully understand the competitive landscape."

"The more successful you become, the more you have to think about the bigger picture."

"Management is about creating conditions for people to do their best work."

"You have to take risks to succeed."

"The best decisions are made when you have the most information."

"Change is the most important tool available to you."

"Your job is to understand what the customer really wants."

"The most successful companies are led by people who understand their business."

"You cannot lead people you don't understand."