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.
It’s easy to decide what you’re going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you’re not going to do.
I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.
You can’t be afraid to fail because that’s when you learn.
If you don’t have jobs, it’s hard to have other things like health and education.
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
If you look at innovation, it doesn’t just occur in the lab.
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.
Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what’s possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they’ll need to compete in the global economy.
It’s exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I’m not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don’t follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what’s important to them.
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.
The point is, you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.
Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.
By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
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.
I’m a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.
One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.
I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.