Intel

“If you're going to fire a bullet, do it excellent. That way you know that if it doesn't hit, it's just not going to work. As opposed to, maybe it would have worked if you would have done it well. So if it's a bullet, you still have to bring the kind of excelle…”

“What history shows is usually the second cannonball from a bullet to cannonball process on top of an existing flywheel becomes the biggest part of the company. Marriott started in restaurants, bullet to cannonball, hotels, right? Apple started in personal comp…”

“If I had to come up with somewhat pejorative analogy, I think Samsung is going to be more like Intel. I think that they're just a little bit sclerotic and bureaucratic and slow moving, and it's going to sort of ebb and decline.”

“We're building with Intel a thirty two billion dollar fabrication plant in Arizona.”

“Teledyne stock went on the market in 1961 with Arthur Rock, Who would later become famous for backing Intel and Apple, helping in the IPO.”

“The true genius of leadership lies in recognizing when incremental improvements become futile and when you must abandon the very business that made you successful, the golden goose, if you will, even while it's still generating enormous profits.”

“The pivot would cost thousands of jobs, millions in R&D, and require shuttering Eight manufacturing plants.”

“At Intel, Grove created forums where middle managers' voices could be heard and respected regardless of hierarchy.”

“While others sought to duplicate their strengths in founding teams, Grove recognized that more and noise needed someone fundamentally different from themselves. They had vision, they had technical credibility, but what they lacked was operational discipline.”

“Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business, and then another chunk, until there's nothing left. I believe that the prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constan…”

“You can tell you're going through a strategic inflection point if the way you traditionally have done business no longer delivers the kind of results that we used to get. Well, the new way of doing business involves so much uncertainty that you can't easily br…”

“The complexity of manufacturing the 11 oh three made it nearly impossible for competitors to reverse engineer, giving Intel a multi-year advantage in the market. In effect, complicated manufacturing became their core skill.”

“The formal decision-making process is usually the only protective covering for a much simpler informal process.”

“Intel in 1985 was a memory company. The business generated over 90% of their revenue, and it would soon be gone.”

“After quarters of watching Japanese competitors demolish Intel's market share from 83% to a mere 1.3%,”

“If you're running an organization or you're senior level in an organization, your ceiling is determined by the talent you attract, not the talent you possess.”

“The best person to worry about product quality first is the designer. As the product goes into manufacturing and the designer takes on a new product design, he loses interest. A third independent body should take over the quality control function from the engi…”

“The company ran exactly one television commercial for the Micromaw watches at a cost of 600,000 dollars.”

“As Andy would later observe, people who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.”

“The persistent problem nobody else wants to tackle eventually find their permanent home with the person willing to solve them.”