Andy Grove

"Your career is your business, and you are its CEO."

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

"How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but by how well we are understood."

"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."

"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"

"Only the paranoid survive."

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

"A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change."

"The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat is crucial."

"Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves."

"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."