Michael Dell

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stay Strong.

Think Big and make it happen.

We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

Yes, we can

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.