You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.