Michael Dell Quotes

You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

The world is ready for a more sophisticated 'TMZ.' If there's one thing I've learned, it's that any dummy with a half-decent idea can become a billionaire.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.