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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.

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I didn’t have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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The entertainment industry always chooses to fight things out through the courts and legislation. Technology people always think there’s a business solution.

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We don’t consider ourselves a PC company.

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Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders.

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

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We have to have a successful box business if we are going to go beyond the box.

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

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

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

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

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Both Gateway and I are products of Sioux City.

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

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

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I love Gateway, and I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure the company can grow and prosper in this challenging environment.

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Technology for technology’s sake is not innovation. What we in the industry have to be concerned about is what products do, as opposed to what the processing power is.

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

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People are looking for more than a faster and faster PC. It has to do what they want. Will it fill some void, add some value, deliver something that they can’t do previously at a price that people are willing to pay for?

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

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I definitely don’t welcome takeover interests.

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Our biggest risk is ourselves.

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I’ve used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.

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I don’t want a mercenary management team.

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You have to have great products out at the right time. It’s difficult to go with one foot on the gas and the other a little bit on the brake.

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I’ll end up living where I feel is the best place to raise my kids.

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For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging.

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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.

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

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

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