Top 65 Michael Dell Quotes
#1. Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning
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#2. The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.
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#3. If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.
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#4. If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.
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#5. I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.
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#6. There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
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#7. Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.
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#8. I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.
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#9. If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.
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#10. We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.
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#11. Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. There's enormous opportunities to make IT more accessible to tens of millions of companies, kind of democratizing the ability for companies to gain access to IT.
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#12. The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.
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#13. Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
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#14. It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
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#15. Microsoft's an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry.
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#16. It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.
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#17. The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.
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#18. People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.
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#19. The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you
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#20. I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.
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#21. Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.
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#22. With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed with and go.
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#23. You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
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#24. Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
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#25. It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.
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#26. If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.
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#27. The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.
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#29. Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.
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#30. Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our customers secure, protect their data and access it from any device they want to.
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#31. Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC market has a long tail of usage, particularly in the commercial world, but also in consumer.
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#32. In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
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#33. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.
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#34. I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.
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#35. Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.
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#36. We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.
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#37. Anything that can be measured can be improved
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#38. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
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#39. I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.
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#40. Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.
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#41. There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there's a really long tail of usage on client devices.
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#42. I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
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#43. From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
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#45. If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life?
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#46. There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.
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#47. Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people ... or find a different room.
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#48. Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
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#49. I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.
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#50. The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
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#51. There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.
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#52. You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don't accept risk, you don't get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.
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#53. Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.
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#54. One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.
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#55. I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.
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#56. It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.
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#57. I had to give it a full go and see what happened.
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#58. If we have 99% [market] share of Ford Company, the question to us is 'How do we improve the customer satisfaction in order to get that additional 1% share?
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#59. One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.
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#60. By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
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#61. Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
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#62. Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.
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#63. Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.
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#64. I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.
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#65. The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as - 'You don't have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.' So they see it as a positive.
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