Quotes by Eckhard Pfeiffer

About Eckhard Pfeiffer:

Eckhard Pfeiffer is a businessman of German ancestry, who served as President and CEO of Compaq from 1991 to 1999. He was named as one of TIME's "Cyber Elite Top 50" for 1998.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

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I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

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Retire? I will never retire.

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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

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I am a very thorough person.

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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

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I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

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Author Bio

  • NameEckhard Pfeiffer
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornAugust 20, 1941