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Celebrate for a nanosecond.
Collaboration equals innovation.
Regrets are born of paths never taken.
Anything that can be measured can be improved
Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
I had to give it a full go and see what happened.
There's always an opportunity to make a difference
There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.
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.
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.
If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis.
The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you
Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it.
I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.
5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.
The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.
Microsoft's an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry.
If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.
Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.
I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.
Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.
One of the interesting things about the Dell-EMC combination is that we don't have a lot of overlap.
Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.
If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.
By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.
Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.
I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.
Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'
I can predict things. I can improve the uptime and the reliability. I can intervene and cause a better outcome before there's a problem.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.
You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.
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.
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.