“The person who is the star of a previous era is often the last one to adapt to change.”
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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“It’s yet another example illustrating that the person who is the star of a previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to the logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.”
Andrew S. Grove
“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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“It’s common for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“It was a bitter moment. Defeat is one thing; disgrace is another.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source