Michael Dell Quotes

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

A new future requires a new past.

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

When you are through changing, you are through.