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I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.

The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

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.

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.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

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

Anything that can be measured can be improved

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

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.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Microsoft's an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry.

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

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

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.

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.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

I had to give it a full go and see what happened.

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.

Celebrate for a nanosecond.