Eckhard Pfeiffer Quotes

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.

Retire? I will never retire.

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.

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

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

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

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

I am a very thorough person.

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.