In an interview with the Financial Times, the 62-year old said: 'I’m so sick of travel. Just give me three months of not going to airports and let me decompress and then I can think about what I want to do. When you’ve done something for 20 years it’s hard to imagine not doing it.'

Softly spoken

Expecting a more aggressive manner from the chair of Latham & Watkins, the FT said that the most surprising thing about him was his 'softly spoken nature and flawless manners'. Mr Dell is credited with turning a Los Angeles-based practice with three offices abroad into the world's third biggest law firm, spread across 31 offices in 14 countries. But the decision to go global at all was 'the most difficult', he says, as failure 'could be rather disastrous because of the significant investment involved'. Source: FT