Quotes from Michael Dell

Our lean beginnings created the strategic management principles that define our culture: Less is more. Information is better than inventory. Ingenuity is better than investment. Execution is everything. No excuses.

I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

How successful you are is really a function of how well you deal with failure—and how much you learn from it.