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Tips for entrepreneurs from Michael Dell

March 4th, 2009

I just read these interesting tips on Rediff, so sharing it with you. My favorite lines are highlighted below -

  • It’s customers that made Dell great in the first place, and if we’re smart enough and quick enough to listen to customer needs, we’ll succeed.
  • I learned very early to surround myself with talented people who challenge convention, offer new ideas and relentlessly drive for improvement. And to let those people thrive. Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people… or find a different room.
  • Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity that you miss the right opportunity.
  • 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.
  • 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.

I hope you will find this useful.

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  • http://webpreneur.net Alex MacGregor

    Read that too today, Dell is an amazing entrepreneur without doubt. I always admire guys that go with gut instinct and feeling in the face of massive obstacles e.g IBM, big computer co's.

  • http://webpreneur.net Alex MacGregor

    Read that too today, Dell is an amazing entrepreneur without doubt. I always admire guys that go with gut instinct and feeling in the face of massive obstacles e.g IBM, big computer co's.

  • http://adeologue.com aditya

    Yes Alex! The gut instinct is something we can not imitate from these leaders. We can learn from their other tactics, but gut instinct, we have to go with our own. So that decides our success or not.

  • http://adityakothadiya.com aditya

    Yes Alex! The gut instinct is something we can not imitate from these leaders. We can learn from their other tactics, but gut instinct, we have to go with our own. So that decides our success or not.

  • PP

    Hi there,
    I saw this post and could not help writing my experince with Lenovo.
    We ordered one monitor in January and we have been contacting the company about its delivery date. Still could not get a fixed date on that. Its really frustrating.
    Dell on the other hand is really concerned about customer satisfaction. :)
    Very true.

  • PP

    Hi there,
    I saw this post and could not help writing my experince with Lenovo.
    We ordered one monitor in January and we have been contacting the company about its delivery date. Still could not get a fixed date on that. Its really frustrating.
    Dell on the other hand is really concerned about customer satisfaction. :)
    Very true.

  • http://www.networkmarketingsuccess.ws mlgreen8753

    Thanks for the tips. After 10 years in the online marketing industry I can back you up on all of those guidelines. Any advertising advice or more specific business advice?

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    I saw this post and could not help writing my experince with Lenovo. We ordered one monitor in January and we have been contacting the company about its delivery date. Still could not get a fixed date on that. Its really frustrating.