Companies that are closest to the customers are the ones who are going to lead the industry. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
We hope to be a leader in the convergence of consumer electronics and communications. — Ted Waitt Communication Copy Share Image
I don't see anybody pointing to desktop PCs as being a hot Christmas item. — Ted Waitt Being Copy Share Image
We have to have a successful box business if we are going to go beyond the box. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
There's a large risk to our society if a group of people doesn't have access to technology or even the desire to… — Ted Waitt Desire Copy Share Image
The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say. — Ted Waitt Country Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry always chooses to fight things out through the courts and legislation. Technology people always think there's a business solution. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
So many people got caught up in the excitement and the promise of the Internet that they kind of lost sight of… — Ted Waitt Excitement Copy Share Image
We think the right categorization for digital devices is something you hold in your hand, a mobile-type product, and something you sit… — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of being first, it's being there at the right time, being first in volume to market, and knowing… — Ted Waitt Investing 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
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
You can get business with price, but you have to have service to keep it. — Ted Waitt Business Copy Share Image
I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often. — Ted Waitt Book 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
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
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
Sometimes people have a hard time believing that a company is intentionally trying to make itself smaller. — Ted Waitt Business 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
The first thing I got was a jet. And it's the last thing I'd get rid of if I go bankrupt. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We started putting '2000' at the end of our name. That was in 1985, and 2000 seemed very futuristic. — Ted Waitt 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
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
