Michael Dell Quotes

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

We need investors who plant and grow, not reap and run.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

I'm a person who's been in a long-term relationship. It's not surprising that a lot of my friends - whether they're in same-sex relationships or not, whether they're married officially or just in a long-term relationship - have really interesting and various stages in their relationship. My life is looking at these friendships and saying, "Wait a minute, isn't this something really interesting? How can I explore this?"

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.