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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Our second-quarter results and expectations for strong industry demand in the second half of the year keep us on track toward our goal of 30 percent full-year sales growth. There remains tremendous room for expansion in all product categories, customer groups and regional markets, and the fundamental advantages of our direct model are more compelling than ever.
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Our unique direct business model has allowed us to take advantage of rapidly declining component costs and pass along savings to our customers.
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The open-source collaborative development model, I believe, is built to succeed in the Internet age, and it makes more sense than the proprietary model of some of our competitors,
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We have found through internal growth and a disciplined focus on our direct model and by partnering with the world's leading services companies, we can essentially see this growth in an internal fashion,
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Last year we dramatically extended the capabilities of the Dell direct business model through opportunities with the Internet, ... Our online customer mix moved from a predominantly consumer-oriented base to a far broader base including business and government customers.
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All companies use servers of various sizes. Servers represent a disproportionate amount of profit opportunity. That's why we're using our direct marketing model to bring (them to customers), ... Capital Ideas.
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The key to our performance in the fourth quarter was focus. By remaining focused, we have helped our customers benefit from the superior performance, service and value that our unique direct model delivers.
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It also means their job is constantly changing because technology is changing and this is a customer-driven industry. So our employees need to be flexible and driven. They are going to always be in training.
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What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.
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Based on what customers are telling us, we expect sequential industry growth to follow historical trends, Y2K notwithstanding,
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We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,
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What we are trying to do is appeal to customers with technological experience.
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There are still opportunities to grow in desktop and mobile computing, ... To say we are going straight into the television market is a bit of an exaggeration. Computing is the core of our business.
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I was surprised to see IBM's level of competition, ... That's something we haven't seen from them in a long time.