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Andrew S. Grove

出生: September 02, 1936 – Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-born American engineer, executive, and author whose writing focused on management, strategy, and technology leadership. Best known for High Output Management and Only the Paranoid Survive, he helped lead Intel’s rise as its CEO and chairman, shaping modern semiconductor strategy and becoming an influential voice in business leadership.

传记与作者历程

Andrew S. Grove, widely known as Andy Grove, was born András István Gróf in Budapest in 1936 and came of age under extraordinary pressure. He survived the Nazi occupation as a child, then fled Hungary after the 1956 uprising and arrived in the United States as a refugee with limited English and little money. Those early dislocations shaped both his ambition and his distrust of complacency. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, graduating in 1960, and later earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. The young immigrant who had been forced to adapt quickly became, by training and temperament, a builder of systems: analytical, disciplined, and relentlessly concerned with what actually worked.

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名言

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Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction
-Only the Paranoid Survive
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In technology, whatever can be done will be done
-Only the Paranoid Survive
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The sad news is, nobody owes you a career
-Only the Paranoid Survive
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Life - whether it's an individual's or an organization's life - is like a random walk
-Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
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Technology is both an end in itself and a means to other ends
-Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
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Conventional logic will often give you a less than optimum answer
-Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
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Individuals, embrace that which confounds you most
-Harvard International Conference on Internet & Society
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For businesses, do more and talk less
-Harvard International Conference on Internet & Society

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