Billions Quote by Michael Dell

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing…

— Michael Dell

I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember in 1980…

— Bill Gates

Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. There's enormous opportunities to make IT more accessible…

— Michael Dell

The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so…

— Max McKeown

In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion.

— Ted Waitt

“Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009—up from less than $300 million in 2008. That represents a stunning growth…

— David Kirkpatrick

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

— Steve Wozniak

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

— Peter Diamandis

“The initial promise of computer technology was to remove the intermediary from the financial market, or at least reduce the amount he could scalp…

— Michael Lewis

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make…

— Michael Dell

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I…

— Boomer Esiason

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people…

— Jaron Lanier