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" If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis. "
Michael Dell
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Aspen
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" I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team. Wasn't on the football team. Wasn't on the basketball team. I was in the Number Sense Club. "
Michael Dell
Basketball
Club
Team
" I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible. "
Michael Dell
Remember
Information
Decision
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Success
Company
Doing
" I called up a bunch of the CEOs of Silicon Valley companies and said, 'Hey, can I come and see you? And I'd like to learn about what you're doing.' And I don't know, most of them said yes. "
Michael Dell
Said
You
See
" The best customers for us are the ones that present us with a new problem because chances are, if one customer has that problem, 100 more have it, or 1,000, or 10,000. So you start thinking about solution development rather than product development. "
Michael Dell
New
You
Thinking
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Up
Think
Different
" When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople, we would have totally destroyed Secureworks. Instead, it remained Secureworks but with capital from Dell and access to Dell's customers. And now, it's a great business. "
Michael Dell
Access
Now
Business
" 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. "
Michael Dell
You
Success
Genius
" When you found a company, you feel a deep sense of responsibility for it. I'll care about Dell even after I'm dead. So this is a pretty personal process. And when you're doing what you love, and it's working, you don't get tired working what other people might consider long hours or crazy schedules. It's just fun. It's energizing. "
Michael Dell
Responsibility
People
Tired
" The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much. "
Michael Dell
You
World
Behind
" The IT organization can't drive or lead a digital transformation. It has to come from the business and the business strategy, because they're fundamental to how a company or an organization evolves. "
Michael Dell
Business
Organization
Strategy
" Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. "
Michael Dell
Numbers
Like
Seem
" 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. "
Michael Dell
You
Business
Different
" Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. "
Michael Dell
Technology
Relationships
Business
" Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media - all industries are becoming technology industries. And it's not information technology: it's business technology. "
Michael Dell
Technology
Business
Media
" People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch cannot create the laws. So, if the executive branch tries to create a branch one side or the other... you go back to the founders of the nation. They set up a system that ensures that it doesn't happen. "
Michael Dell
Back
You
Power
" I always knew I wanted to run a business someday. "
Michael Dell
Someday
Always
Business
" I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization. "
Michael Dell
Think
Special
Organization
" Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it. "
Michael Dell
World
Other
India
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Interesting
Windows
Care
" Microsoft's an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry. "
Michael Dell
Company
Partner
Microsoft
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Want
Will
Protect
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Everything
World
Interesting
" IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications. "
Michael Dell
Technology
You
Long
" One of the interesting things about the Dell-EMC combination is that we don't have a lot of overlap. "
Michael Dell
Things
Interesting
Interesting Things
" I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won't define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline. "
Michael Dell
Good
Game
Looking
" 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.' "
Michael Dell
Place
Environment
Change
" 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. "
Michael Dell
History
Plan
Successful
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Problem
Predict
Improve
" One of the biggest challenges we face today is finding managers who can sense and respond to rapid shifts, people who can process new information very quickly and make decisions in real time. It's a problem for the computer industry as a whole - and not just for Dell - that the industry's growth has outpaced its ability to create managers. "
Michael Dell
Today
Decisions
Growth