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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All our businesses are doing exceptionally well in an extremely challenging environment,
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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.
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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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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.
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Our business continued to grow profitably in all customer segments and regions around the world,
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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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The Internet is probably the most significant thing that has come along,
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People have been predicting the demise of the PC for years and have been wrong for years,
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These devices are not necessarily substitutes to the PC, but complementary. You can't find a Palm Pilot user who doesn't have a PC,
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I don't expect that the economy is going to come roaring back in one quarter. I think it's going to be a very gradual and gentle recovery. And the fact is, we don't have a way of predicting this with any certainty.
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Manufacturing jobs today require highly skilled workers who are familiar with computers and technology,
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If we get half the performance in the next couple of years, I'll be happy,
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Dell is already a leader in online commerce,
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for the people, the infrastructure and, of course, the incentives played a role.