Michael Dell Quotes

At the end of the day, no one is going to care about your company as much as you do. That is a motto that you will live or die by. And if you don't believe that, just take your eye off the ball for a day and watch what happens.

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

You can't be an entrepreneur for other people. You can't start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn't a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life - but yet, it is so rewarding.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called 'workaholics'. I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration

Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

I don't have any interest in cashing out or leaving the business or doing something else. I just love Subway, and I want to keep focusing on the company for the benefit of all our franchise owners. So I'm kind of like married to the job.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.

You have to have a ton of passion for what you're doing because being an entrepreneur is probably twice as hard as you think it's going to be. The good news is that it's probably twice as much fun when it's going well.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.