Michael Dell Quotes

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

No team works out teamwork.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.