Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

We hope to be a leader in the convergence of consumer electronics and communications.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

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
Ted Waitt

I don't see anybody pointing to desktop PCs as being a hot Christmas item.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

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

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

We want a Gateway to be the last computer our clients will ever buy.

Ted Waitt
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 what trends to stay away from.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

Who is my biggest competitor? AOL, Microsoft, and AT&TAtHome.

Ted Waitt
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
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
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
Ted Waitt

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.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

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

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

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

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

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

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

I was fascinated to see that if you knew what you were doing, you could sell a $3,000 computer system over the phone.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

The Internet is the number one reason people buy PCs, and the number one use of PCs is on the Internet from our customer base.

Ted Waitt
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 two feet away from.

Ted Waitt
Ted Waitt

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