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Ten Best Quotes

The electronics industry's ten best quotes span 150 years. They are as follows:

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organisation, innovation and communication.
Michael Faraday

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

Fear is a real killer. I try to trudge through the jungle with as little fear as possible.
William Shockley

If ethics are poor at the top, that behaviour is copied down through the organisation.
Bob Noyce.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.
Gordon Moore

We, in the semiconductor industry, know that only the paranoid survive
Andy Grove

When I walk through the Valley I fear no evil because I am the biggest son of a bitch in the Valley
Jerry Sanders III

Larry's hype has expanded to fill his ego
Bill Gates

I wish him the best. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow.
Steve Jobs

If a PC was a car you'd only be able to drive it round your backyard, and you'd still have to buy Steering Wheel 7.0
Larry Ellison.

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