Michael Dell Quotes

When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

If you really stay focused on what your beliefs are and what your customer wants, you'll find the right markets.

Business can never be carried on without optimism, and the New World is essentially optimistic. But at the same time optimism does not absolve us from weighing carefully all possible difficulties.

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.

The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.