Kevin Rollins
Kevin Rollins
Kevin Barney Rollinsis an American businessman and philanthropist. The former President and CEO of Dell Inc., in 2006 Rollins was named by London's CBR as the 9th Most Influential person in the Enterprise IT sector...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Kevin Rollins quotes about
business economic model potent
Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,
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Dell continues to make investments in facilities, employees and communities here in the United States and abroad so we can exceed our customers' expectations at every turn,
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It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.
aggressive goal pricing sure
Our goal has always been to be very aggressive on pricing and make sure we're growing.
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Our operating performance was again exceptional by any comparable measure. ... However, we hold ourselves to higher standards.
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If that agreement and relationship expand, so be it. It could be a good thing, (but) we don't have anything to announce.
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Our mindset always says it's not how big the market is but how profitable it can be as the key determiner of whether or not we want to be in it.
advantage costs flattened supply
Supply costs have flattened somewhat, but our competitive advantage has not.
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that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track.
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After the second quarter, we took a hard look at execution and made changes to balance our pricing and product range, ... We implemented improvements to increase efficiency and drive lower operating expenses, and we focused resources to improve customer support. We are already seeing results including the consolidation.
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If you look at Internet companies today that have no earnings but have a lot of stock value and the high cost to buy them, we can't see in our business model where it makes a whole lot of sense,
powerful systems towards trend uniquely
In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.
quarter toughest
The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.
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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.