Andy Grove

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.

Andrew S. Grove

Nothing challenges leadership as much as managing the balance between the yeses—which everyone is happy to add to the balance sheet—and the nos, which no one ever volunteers for.

Andrew S. Grove

…when you look at the use of stock options, and you look at companies that give 50 percent of their options to the top five officers, you get one picture. But when you look at companies where 90 percent or 95 percent of the options are given to people other than the top five officers, you get the other effect. So stock options are not … [ Read more ]