“The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business.”
Andrew S. Grove
Only the Paranoid Survive (Primary source)
Andrew Grove’s Only the Paranoid Survive stands as a seminal meditation on corporate survival in an age of relentless technological upheaval. Published in 1996, when the digital revolution was reshaping the very foundations of American economic life, the book distills Grove’s hard-won wisdom into a theory of what he termed “strategic inflection points”—those epochal moments when the fundamental rules governing a business undergo tectonic transformation.
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“The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses: millions of other employees all over the world. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. It is your responsibility to protect this personal business of yours from harm and to position it to benefit from the changes in the environment. Nobody else can do that for you.”
Andrew S. Grove
“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“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 Primary source“The absolute truth is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it”
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“Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn’t mean that they’ll be careful with the secrets of yours.”
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— John F. Kennedy Primary source“Anytime we have new forms of communication it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
— Albert Einstein Secondary sourceCareer Responsibility Self-reliance