Michael Dell Quotes

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.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

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.

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.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

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.

Anything that can be measured can be improved

Collaboration equals innovation.

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

I had to give it a full go and see what happened.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

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.

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.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

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.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

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.

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.

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.

Celebrate for a nanosecond.

I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.

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.

You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

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?

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.