Roger Kay Quotes on People (7 Quotes)

When you go from direct to indirect, the only people who get upset are your own sales force. But if you've got distribution and you go direct, you're competing against the people that help you.

It's like the 50-year-old weekend warrior who doesn't want to admit that he can't be an extreme skier anymore, ... There will be no more 40 percent growth you can't get bigger at the rate you used to. If it can't reinvest, it has to do something. You can't keep cash on your balance sheet and do anything with it that people are going to be happy about.

They have a huge cash flow that finances a whole city of people, and yet where you can grow from there is actually fairly limited. Microsoft's stock price isn't going anywhere, and in that environment, politics that were background noise rise to the foreground.

They're not just the company that made the box, they're the people that sold it to you.

There's been this long-term trend at Comdex for the action to move off the floor, ... Originally a lot of the people who came were resellers, and serious business got done in the booths, and the booths weren't that expensive.

People talk about the possible reduction of choice. I don't see it that way,

A lot of people just use PCs as DVD players. But they want a nice interface for that. Theoretically, if there was zero premium for the Media Center OS, it'd be on 100 percent of home PCs.