Ted Waitt

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

— Ted Waitt

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

— Ted Waitt

Anything that helps consumers get more for their money is fine by us.

— Ted Waitt

Companies that are closest to the customers are the ones who are going to lead the industry.

— Ted Waitt

We started putting '2000' at the end of our name. That was in 1985, and 2000 seemed very futuristic.

— Ted Waitt

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

If Dell's going to be a fast follower, then we'll continue to innovate.

— Ted Waitt

Sometimes people have a hard time believing that a company is intentionally trying to make itself smaller.

— Ted Waitt

There are hundreds of competitors in the direct marketing of computers. We have been very successful because of quality, price, service and…

— Ted Waitt

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

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

I came from an entrepreneurial family. My father and five generations of people in my family do not make good employees.

— Ted Waitt

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

— Ted Waitt

So many people got caught up in the excitement and the promise of the Internet that they kind of lost sight of…

— Ted Waitt

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

— Ted Waitt

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

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

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

If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that.

— Ted Waitt

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.

— Ted Waitt

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

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

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

— Ted Waitt

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

Customers don't care about rivalries between corporations, they care about getting the best value for their money.

— Ted Waitt

The biggest challenge is adding the bureaucracy it takes to run the company without becoming fat, lazy, inflexible - bureaucratic.

— Ted Waitt

We've got tremendous equity in cow spots and in the name Gateway, so this isn't anything radical, but you'll see us getting…

— Ted Waitt

When I look back through the 1980s and 1990s, those were some of the funniest experiences I had and, sometimes, some of…

— Ted Waitt

You have to have great products out at the right time. It's difficult to go with one foot on the gas and…

— Ted Waitt

I love Gateway, and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure the company can grow and prosper in…

— Ted Waitt

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

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