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Steve Ballmer

American,  Businessman
Total Quotes : 26
Google Company Cards

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

- Steve Ballmer

Property Linux Itself

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

- Steve Ballmer

Leadership Work Companies

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

- Steve Ballmer

Got Leaders Attract

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

- Steve Ballmer

New People Hire Very

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

- Steve Ballmer

Flag Wave Your

When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high.

- Steve Ballmer

People Company Our

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

- Steve Ballmer

Money Mindset Capability

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

- Steve Ballmer

Good Design Accessible

Accessible design is good design.

- Steve Ballmer

Me Monopoly Tells

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

- Steve Ballmer

Innovation Think I Think

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

- Steve Ballmer

My Life Never Honestly

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

- Steve Ballmer

Software Doing Microsoft

From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud.

- Steve Ballmer

Business Monopoly Market

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

- Steve Ballmer

Other Poorly Brainwashed

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

- Steve Ballmer

Business Trust Through

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

- Steve Ballmer

Technology Learn Think

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

- Steve Ballmer

Strong Think I Think

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

- Steve Ballmer

Work Will Work Out

We will make our products work out of the box.

- Steve Ballmer

Chance Market No Chance

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

- Steve Ballmer