Andy Grove

"A manager's job is to amplify the talents of others."

"The most successful people are those who can tolerate ambiguity."

"Your strategy must be simple enough for your people to understand it."

"The pace of innovation is limited only by your imagination."

"What got you here won't get you there."

"A flat organization works only when you have shared values."

"You must make the hard decisions before you have to."

"The Internet makes the world a smaller but more complex place."

"Your reputation is everything in business."

"The cost of indecision is often greater than the cost of a wrong decision."

"A manager who doesn't have disagreement with their team isn't listening."

"The future belongs to those who question the present."

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

"Grove believed that a manager's output is the output of his organization."

"You have to pretend you're 100% sure. You have to take action with incomplete information."

"The more successful you are, the more people want a piece of you."

"Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves as fully to winning as they ought to."

"What exits the Pentium factory is not just a chip, but a product of human ingenuity."

"Grove taught that people are promoted to their level of incompetence."

"You need to develop a habit of listening to people's suggestions even when you are not inclined to do so."

"The lesson from all this is that you have to assume that anything can happen."

"A company is a living, breathing organism that must adapt or perish."

"Output is the only thing that matters; all else is support."

"Grove understood that the middle manager is the backbone of any organization."

"You cannot manage what you do not measure."

"Strategic inflection points come when the balance of forces shifts."

"Believing is not a requirement for learning; seeing is."

"The best decision-makers are those who can admit when they're wrong."

"Competition is the best teacher. It teaches you to be better."