What Michael Dell had to say about Apple…10 years back? October 8, 2007
Posted by ilabs in Starting Up.Tags: entrepreneur, oops
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This is what Michael Dell retorted about Apple 10 years back.
The idea is not to rubbish off Michael Dell. (There was a time not long back when Michael Dell was the ‘future’ of the industry)
Such blunders are not an exception… There are many more of these that with time have become epitomes of ‘human misjudgment’.
But there is something else that fascinates me…
Michael Dell is an exceptional entrepreneur. If not for him and Dell’s supply chain strategy, laptops would not have been so affordable / customisable and also, Business Schools across the world would not have had another of those ‘ubiquitous case studies’.
But even Michael Dell makes mistakes… and Steve Jobs who has made many-a-mistakes does rise again. And rises higher.
Thats the beauty of life, isn’t it?
Irrespective of how right you have been, you will still go wrong. Regardless of how miserably you have failed, you can still succeed.
Life is a great leveller.
The rewards of business lie in getting it right just once.
Because then, even though you will go wrong, your cost of error will always be lesser…
As goes the famous quote ,
You need to get rich only once.
