Michael Dell
Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dellis an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers. He was ranked the 41st richest person in the world on 2012 Forbes list of billionaires, with a net worth of US$22.4 billion as of December 2014...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 February 1965
CityHouston, TX
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It's Darwin. We were forced to do things, based on the resources we had, that were more efficient, smarter, delivered more value. Compaq, if I remember, had about $100 million of funding in its first year. We had $1,000. If you only have a $1,000, you spend each one very carefully.
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It's customers that made Dell great in the first place, and if we're smart enough and quick enough to listen to customer needs, we'll succeed,
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Customers are voting with their dollars and their feet today,
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Current softness in industry demand and profit margins is not a secret, ... But in this environment, the differences between Dell and other major companies are compelling.
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Currently we have about 9,000 people working from three centers and we intend to double the number by 2009.
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and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.
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No matter what happens, the more small devices there are, the more large ones there will be, too, ... All these devices, no matter how large or small they are, go to a server when they get online, which is why we're so focused on servers.
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It's not the right time to do it now, but stay tuned,
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As we come to the end of the calendar year, industry conditions remain healthy, ... Processor and operating system transitions and component cost declines continue to position our industry for strong customer demand.
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All our businesses are doing exceptionally well in an extremely challenging environment,
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A lot of the larger customers are looking at the end of February before major rollouts start taking place. We don't know exactly at what rate the turn-on is going to go, but it looks like February is not going to be tremendously strong for the industry.
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A lot of these companies are talking about going direct, but few of them are transitioning significant portions of their business to direct, ... We grew 2.8 times faster than Compaq in servers, 4.8 times faster in notebooks, and 3.2 times faster than Compaq overall.
afraid run technology
Don't be afraid or run away from technology,
business china enhance expansion further global growth innovation next product step support
This expansion is an important next step for us to further enhance our global product innovation, and to support our business growth in China and around the world.