Quote of the day by former Intel CEO Andy Grove: 'Success breeds complacency'
accidental foreshadowing of his company's own decline

Date:
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Intel has endured its ups and downs over the last few decades

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Intel is one of the most ubiquitous companies in the world, let alone the technology industry, with
its technologies powering many of the computers most people have used for generations. Central to its success was a philosophy from its former CEO Andy Grove, who was a part of the company from day one and ran it from 1987 to 1998. "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." Andy Grove, October 1996 Inside Intel Andy Grove was setting out the foundational theme for his management book 'Only the Paranoid Survive', which he wrote toward the latter years as CEO of Intel. Quote of
the day This article is part of TechRadar Pro's QOTD project to provide an insight into the minds of the brightest and most recognized figures in the technology industry today and in years gone by. Read the full series here . Grove, who is widely recognised as one of the most successful tech executives of the late 20th century, advocated strongly for putting paranoia at the
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But what's worse, as he described it, are 'strategic inflection points' that signal a massive shift in fundamentals that could either lead to staggering growth or a grave decline by an order of magnitude. It's fair to say, in the years since he left Intel, that the company has endured its ups and downs, putting it mildly. Sliding doors Although Intel enjoyed incredible success in the 20th century and into the early 2000s, the company stuttered in recent years with rival chipmakers including Nvidia and AMD gaining ground and
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Ironically, from the outside, it appears that the company had succumbed to
the sort of complacency that its former CEO had been warning against.

That said, the company is in the midst of a remarkable comeback under the leadership of new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who has overseen a dramatic surge in the company's stock price that underlines its improved overall outlook as well as new ventures to support the AI buildout . Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me
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