Great Throughts Treasury

"We are particularly interested in early-stage companies with products and services which have the potential to create breakthroughs in the evolving Internet age, with an aim to integrate those products and services into Dell's business and drive our future growth."

"We are very pleased with the talents that we've found here."

"We are well on our way to our goal of 50 percent online - and actually think that after 50 percent it's going to keep going to 70 percent."

"We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,"

"We believe standardization has helped both Dell and our customers."

"We believe we're doing so to a much greater degree than anyone else in our industry, and it is already a compelling difference in winning and retaining customers of all types."

"We believe the same thing that happened in PCs and notebooks will happen in the server market."

"We believe there is a strong commitment at the highest levels of government, now we need to make it happen."

"We don't see any big cost difference, and we know a thing or two about volume manufacturing."

"We feel quite comfortable with that forecast... Some in our industry have become more aggressive in their predictions and I think if they are right, Dell would benefit from that as much as any company."

"We don't sell the database, period."

"We have been in discussions with a number of state governments in terms of infrastructure and logistics. We are yet to make a decision on the location of the plant."

"We have enormous potential to keep growing. It provides lots of learning opportunity for me and it's fun to see how so many people, so many communities are affected in a positive way by what we're doing here. I love my job and I'm not giving it up."

"We have decided to invest in India in a big way to continue our success story, thanks to the availability of the requisite talent here. The hardware unit is intended to first meet the domestic demand and target the export market subsequently."

"We have found through internal growth and a disciplined focus on our direct model and by partnering with the world's leading services companies, we can essentially see this growth in an internal fashion."

"We just shipped in the fourth quarter over 10 million PCs."

"We saw strength in our servers, notebooks and Internet sales... All the geographies were strong. I'd say we are firing on all cylinders."

"We see a healthy industry in the year ahead... Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid, and consolidation is separating top companies such as Dell from the rest of the field."

"We have some big plans for our growth here. In the last three years, our business outside the U.S. has grown from $12 billion to $22 billion with countries like India being among the fastest-growing markets for us."

"We will ensure a major recruitment push in engineering talents."

"We see this as a fantastic opportunity for us to attract some of the best and bright engineers for our software and hardware activities."

"Well, we started the company by building to the customer's order. And interestingly enough, we didn't do it because we saw some massive paradigm in the future. Basically, we just didn't have any capital [to mass-produce]."

"We're increasingly applying the Internet to our entire business, from component design to end-user support, in the process making it easier to do business with Dell, enhancing relationships with customers and suppliers and reducing costs for all of us."

"We're not going to provide any visibility beyond what we provided for the first quarter."

"We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world."

"We're winning new customers at a rapid rate and successfully managing our operating expenses... Those strengths in the midst of a trying period give us great confidence for the long term."

"What we are trying to do is appeal to customers with technological experience."

"We're seeing some good momentum in the business... The (second) quarter is off to a solid start. We believe we're well positioned to grow market share."

"We're seeing our Internet sales roughly double or triple every year... We were at $18 million a day in the first quarter. It continues to grow. It was 30 percent (of total sales). We think it goes to 50 percent, then to 70 and 80 percent."

"We're very much relying on gaining market share."

"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."

"You know in today's business world if you get behind in your e-mail you fall out of touch very quickly,"

"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

"When you talk to users, you continue to hear the focus move away from memory-processor into other things-- video, media, networking. We as an industry have to make our products more reliable, safer, more productive, more entertaining. If we don't they won't buy it."

"You see, all these devices are basically complementary to the PC."

"You've got to be yourself... I wouldn't have done well in a place where I had to conform because I would always be resisting and I still do it today."