Michael Dell Business Quotations

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

The key is to listen to your heart and let it carry you in the direction of your dreams. I've learned that it's possible to set your sights high and achieve your dreams and do it with integrity, character, and love. And each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Last year we dramatically extended the capabilities of the Dell direct business model through opportunities with the Internet, ... Our online customer mix moved from a predominantly consumer-oriented base to a far broader base including business and government customers.

The latest move to the Intel Pentium II processor to run modern business and consumer applications and the latest Microsoft operating systems, including Windows NT and Windows 98, is already well underway. Dell is well positioned for this transition,

A lot of these companies are talking about going direct, but few of them are transitioning significant portions of their business to direct, ... We grew 2.8 times faster than Compaq in servers, 4.8 times faster in notebooks, and 3.2 times faster than Compaq overall.

Gateway experienced a rather strong year-over-year decline; our cost-structure advantage is quite significant; and our consumer business is not only quite profitable, but growing rapidly, ... Our advantage there appears to be expanding.

We have some big plans for our growth here. In the last three years, our business outside the U.S. has grown from $12 billion to $22 billion with countries like India being among the fastest-growing markets for us.

It's clearly a bad time for all companies.  I don't have a crystal ball on the economy but investment in technology will continue.  Some business just don't have any business trading.  There's a sorting out process that needs to take place.

You know in today's business world if you get behind in your e-mail you fall out of touch very quickly,

Our business continued to grow profitably in all customer segments and regions around the world,

Our unique direct business model has allowed us to take advantage of rapidly declining component costs and pass along savings to our customers.

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

This expansion is an important next step for us to further enhance our global product innovation, and to support our business growth in China and around the world.

All our businesses are doing exceptionally well in an extremely challenging environment,

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

We are particularly interested in early-stage companies with products and services which have the potential to create breakthroughs in the evolving Internet age, with an aim to integrate those products and services into Dell's business and drive our future growth.

Our strong results continue to differentiate us from our competitors, several of which are attempting to imitate aspects of Dell's unique direct business model. We believe that our customers around the world recognize the Dell difference and increasingly appreciate the benefits, stability and strength of our direct model,

We're increasingly applying the Internet to our entire business, from component design to end-user support, in the process making it easier to do business with Dell, enhancing relationships with customers and suppliers and reducing costs for all of us,