Kevin Rollins Quotes on Business & Commerce (12 Quotes)

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

We do not intend to chase low-end non profitable business,

The weakest part of our overall business is in U.S. corporate sales in general, probably desktops,

We believe that the fundamentals of our business are still very healthy, and we did beat analysts estimates in terms of our earnings, and saw an opportunity to make a little more money with some slowness in Europe and the government sector. In the second half, we're still confident that the target and goal we have talked to the Street about, the 30 percent growth, is achievable, and believe that seasonally the second half is better, and will be this year as well,

We remain confident and optimistic about our business,

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

As we look at the dynamics of the industry...we see normal seasonal trends (and) good growth, healthy growth. And if what people are saying about our competition and the industry being down, we're probably taking more share this quarter than we anticipated.

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.

We're seeing healthy demand in key segments of our business, ... Overall it was a pretty strong quarter and there were not a whole lot of surprises for us.

We are disappointed that we didn't hit all of our numbers for the quarter, but we're always looking for better ways to improve the efficiencies of our business,

The U.S. consumer business didn't grow that fast this quarter, but it's still a great business,

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.