Michael Dell Quotes

Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide.

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable.

You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.

As an entrepreneur, I've learned how crucial it is to be able to call a spade a spade and avoid falling in love with a particular strategy or product. Instead, you need to let the customer tell you what she needs - and to change her as she changes.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

Be big, fast and flexible.

With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.

Yes, our competition may have significantly more engineers or significantly more R&D investment. On the other hand, we have significantly more freedom. We have the freedom to innovate.

We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.