Kevin B. Rollins
When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.Collection: Growing Up
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.Collection: Goal
We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.Collection: Opportunity
I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.Collection: Technology
We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.Collection: Blessed
We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.Collection: Mind Your Own Business
We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.Collection: Thinking
Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.Collection: Europe
What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.Collection: Running
And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.Collection: Years
In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.Collection: Powerful
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.Collection: White
Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.Collection: Stronger
Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.Collection: Army
I believe that one-product wonders come and go.Collection: Believe
I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.Collection: Struggle
Consumer electronics is a challenging one.Collection: Challenges
Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.Collection: Technology
Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.Collection: Fun
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.Collection: Expectations