Arthur Rock Quotes

• I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

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• Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

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  Tags in New York, Raised, Born

• And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.

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  Tags in Newspapers, Behold, Apple

• Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

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  Tags in Board, Apple

• You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

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  Tags in Interested, People

• And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

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• And what I’m interested in is investing in people.

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• I mean I wasn’t a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder’s stock.

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• I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder’s stock.

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• IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

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• My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

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• People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

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• So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

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• Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It’s only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

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Arthur Rock (14)

Birth:	19th August, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Arthur Rock was born and raised in Rochester, NY. He is an American businessman and investor. Based out of Silicon Valley, California, he was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951. Rock started his career in 1951 as a securities analyst in New York City, and then joined the corporate finance department of Hayden, Stone & Company in New York, where he focused on raising money for small high-technology companies. In 2003, Rock donated $25 million to the Harvard Business School to establish the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

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