You don't know the impact of Windows XP. You don't know what the economic impact is going to be. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
The PC is an important part of our business and will continue to be for a long, long time. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
Corporations want stable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain systems. — Ted Waitt Corporations Copy Share Image
I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world. — Ted Waitt Ashtrays Copy Share Image
Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry. — Ted Waitt Entertainment Copy Share Image
Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders. — Ted Waitt Being Copy Share Image
We like being an independent company. We do not need to merge or do anything different. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong; we have a great relationship with Intel going back over many, many years. But we're not a wholly-owned… — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
I came from an entrepreneurial family. My father and five generations of people in my family do not make good employees. — Ted Waitt Entrepreneurial Copy Share Image
To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be… — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of competitors in the direct marketing of computers. We have been very successful because of quality, price, service and… — Ted Waitt Computers Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the idea that everything moves to the network. Theoretically it's possible that everybody will use little hand-held devices… — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
When Mike Hammond and I started Gateway 12 years ago on my father's cattle farm, we knew it could be big. We… — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
For a while there, companies were pushing technology on people and people were buying it. Now the consumer is really in the… — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We were unknown before, and that was an advantage. Nobody knew who we were, so we snuck up on the competition. — Ted Waitt Advantage Copy Share Image
But - there's no point in aiming to be Number Two. You've got to have a plan-to-win attitude. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
The PC is going to become one key product in an ever-expanding array of products. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We never put any limitations on what Gateway could be. We had big dreams, big goals. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
From our perspective, there's been a price war in the PC industry since we opened for business in 1985. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
We want a Gateway to be the last computer our clients will ever buy. — Ted Waitt Computer Copy Share Image
If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have a hard time believing that a company is intentionally trying to make itself smaller. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
The PC business is not about price, it's about value, or what you can give the customer for his or her money. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
