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" 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. "
Michael Dell
Well
Excited
Know
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" 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. "
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Today
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" You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and tons of data. And you're able to reason over the data with new computer science and make your product and service better. What does your business look like then? That's the question every CEO should be asking. "
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" 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. "
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Remember
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" VMWare, as you know, remains a public company, and Secure Works is also a public company. And it's possible in the future that within the group, we could have other public companies. "
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" 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
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" Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. "
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Relationships
Business
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Time
You
Waiting
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Power
People
You
" I always knew I wanted to run a business someday. "
Michael Dell
Someday
Always
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" 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
" 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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History
Plan
Successful
" 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
" I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization. "
Michael Dell
Think
Special
Organization
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis. "
Michael Dell
Come
Nights
Aspen
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Curiosity
Path
Opportunity
" 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
" 5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing. "
Michael Dell
New
Whole
Wave
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Dell
Technology
Control
Believe
" 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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You
Success
Genius
" Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. "
Michael Dell
Numbers
Like
Seem
" 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
" 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'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. "
Michael Dell
Cool
Back
Out
" Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it. "
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World
Other
India
" 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. "
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Good
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