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.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.