“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”
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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“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“The absolute truth is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it”
— 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.”
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“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Where should we go? I don’t care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don’t know people.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary sourceOpinions Facts Emotions Time Management Analysis