Business Quote by Michael Dell

When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that…

— Diane Greene

When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople, we would have totally destroyed Secureworks. Instead,…

— Michael Dell

I'm super partner-oriented. That's how I built VMware.

— Diane Greene

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

— Diane Greene

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

— Richard Branson

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things…

— Diane Greene

It's a special thing to be a public company.

— David Duffield

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

— Bill Gates

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the…

— Cathy O'Neil

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public.…

— Marc Rich

We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees.

— Mark Zuckerberg