Quotes from Ted Waitt

Corporations want stable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain systems.

There's a large risk to our society if a group of people doesn't have access to technology or even the desire to get on the Net and see what opportunities are out there. Technology can be a great equalizer.

In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion.

But - there's no point in aiming to be Number Two. You've got to have a plan-to-win attitude.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

We were unknown before, and that was an advantage. Nobody knew who we were, so we snuck up on the competition.

I'm not in favor of stealing music.

From our perspective, there's been a price war in the PC industry since we opened for business in 1985.

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

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 to access the Internet, but I expect more of a hybrid environment.

PCs will go the cell-phone subsidy route.

I kind of became apolitical.

The PC is going to become one key product in an ever-expanding array of products.