Andy Grove

"The best way to stay competitive is to keep improving."

"You have to be willing to make changes quickly."

"Leadership is about creating a shared vision."

"The most important thing is to stay focused on your core business."

"Your job is to develop your people."

"Success is about doing the right things well."

"The only thing that separates successful people from the rest is how they use their time."

"Fear is the fuel that keeps you moving forward in business."

"You have to be paranoid to survive in this industry."

"What the internet is to you depends on what you bring to it."

"Output is what matters. Not how you got there."

"The more successful you are, the more pressure you have."

"To be successful, you have to be willing to fail."

"Management is not about being in control. It's about letting the right people loose."

"Strategic inflection points come to all companies."

"A person either has a passion for something or doesn't."

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

"Adapt or perish, that is the ultimate law of nature."

"How do you know if your work is done? It's done when your presence is no longer required."

"Take the chaos and make order from it. That is the role of a manager."

"Memory becomes prophecy. The past is always trying to tell us something."

"You cannot manage what you do not measure."

"The key to survival is to evolve faster than your competition."

"Why is this happening? Why now? Why me?"

"The board of directors is not your friend."

"Sometimes you have to take a step backward to take two steps forward."

"Spend your time and effort on the core business."

"The most important role of a manager is to make the mission clear."

"The cream rises to the top, and so does the crap."

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure."