Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media - all industries are becoming technology industries. And it's not information technology: it's business technology.

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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.

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It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

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The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

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You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.

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Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

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Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

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Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

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Regrets are born of paths never taken.

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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.

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We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.

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By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

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Don’t be afraid to fail. Get out there and experiment and learn and fail and get a rate based on the experiences you have. Go for it and when you go for it you’ll learn what you’re capable of, what the potential is, where the opportunities are, but you can’t be afraid to fail because that’s when you learn.

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Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

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

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The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

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I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

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Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

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With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed with and go.

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Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

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Collaboration equals innovation.

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