A Quote by Andy Grove

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

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Failure Success Breeds Complacency Only Paranoid Survive

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Andy Grove
Hungarian - Businessman
Born: September 2, 1936

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

Stephen King

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Rick Warren

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Stanley Hoffmann

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Timothy White

A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.

Brad Cohen

Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

Saint Francis de Sales

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

Barbara Corcoran

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

Brian Tracy

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

Franklin P. Adams

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Felicity Kendal

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

Hyman Minsky

I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

Farrah Gray

I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, and my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

Farrah Gray

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.