Word: successful
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...persistent passion down to a calm inner knowledge. "Andy has been exactly the same person. He hasn't changed. That's the beauty of it. He has no airs." That Grove could remain still in the midst of such a turbulent business is perhaps the best explanation of his success. Other companies chased fads or indulged their arrogance. Grove remained constant...
...summa cum laude. (He totaled his car shortly after getting that news from a dean. "I got a C in Faulkner," he explains today, still annoyed. "My third year speaking English, and I'm reading Faulkner!") But when he graduated in 1960, the New York Times trumpeted the success. His professors knew they'd hear from him again. "I was a little astonished by that kind of ambition," says Morris Kolodney, now 86, a CCNY professor who was Grove's freshman adviser. "There's some advantage in being hungry...
...misery loved the company. The years of anguish produced rich rewards made possible by some neck-snapping breakthroughs. The key to the success dated back to an insight Moore had in 1965. Sitting down with a piece of log paper and a ruler, he drew a simple graph. On the vertical axis he tracked the growing complexity of silicon chips, along the bottom he ticked off time, and then he plotted the points out a few years. The resulting line, he saw, showed that chip power doubled roughly every 24 months, even as costs fell by half. The rule (amended...
White-hot competition is another part of the equation, and it's a jarring reality pretty much across the tech board. Success breeds imitators. Imitators flood the market with goods. Prices (and profits) come down. Again, take Intel. It supplies nearly 90% of the microprocessors in PCs worldwide--a more commanding grip than even Microsoft's stranglehold on PC operating systems. But to protect its position, Intel has cut semiconductor prices faster than anyone expected as rivals Cyrix and Advanced Micro Devices compete furiously to supply cheaper components for the $1,000 PCs now taking the world by storm. Intel...
...spurring businesses toward energy efficiency, even without being bound by a treaty. The White House is also hoping that new advances in technology--say, refrigerators that can run on the energy it takes to burn a light bulb--will help make the treaty seem more consumer friendly. Its success in the end will depend on expanding America's environmental constituency: Will the soccer moms give up their sport-utility vehicles for a future of fresh...