Kevin B. Rollins Quotes

• 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.

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  Growing Up, Rage, Economy

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• 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.

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  Goal, Fields, Management

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Choices, Focus

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• 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.

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  Technology, Economy, Made

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• Creemos que tenemos una responsabilidad. Y creo que es importante que todos nosotros en el mundo occidental nos demos cuenta de que todos hemos sido bendecidos mucho y si vas a estas partes no tienen mucho, incluso antes del tsunami.

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  Blessed, Responsibility, Thinking

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• We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

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  Mind Your Own Business, Today, Economy

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• We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

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  Thinking, Years, Demand

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• 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.

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  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• 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.

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  Running, Years, People

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• 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.

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  Years, Worry, People

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• In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

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  Powerful, Trends, Dell

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• 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.

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  White, Example, Flags

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• Bueno, habría que decir cuál es el criterio para determinar el éxito de cualquier fusión. Tendría que ser que las empresas sean más fuertes financieramente, que hayan ganado cuota de mercado y que su rendimiento sea muy estable.

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  Stronger, Mergers, Share

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• 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.

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  Army, Corporations, Economy

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• I believe that one-product wonders come and go.

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  Believe, Wonder, Comes And Goes

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Player, Thinking

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• La electrónica de consumo es todo un reto.

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  Challenges, Electronics, Consumers

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• 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.

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  Technology, Economy, Partners

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• There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

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  Leadership, Challenges, Growth

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• Todo el mundo quiere hablar de ello, y ahora mismo la música, los televisores de pantalla plana y toda una serie de nuevos dispositivos portátiles son divertidos de comentar y muy emocionantes de ver.

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  Fun, Looks, Television

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• 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.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Expectations, Sides, Exit

  "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.

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