27 Of The Very Best Steve Ballmer Quotes

~Steve Ballmer Quotes~

1. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders-Steve Ballmer Quotes
2. I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There’s vision, patience and execution.
3. People-Ready is a natural extension of our founding vision of empowering people through software-Steve Ballmer Quotes
4. The key is that for every business we have is to offer the things that pop every six to nine months, things that pop every couple of years, and things that pop longer than that.
5. The world is changing, but so is Microsoft-Steve Ballmer Quotes
6. This is a very large business that still has incredible possibilities.
7. We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either-Steve Ballmer Quotes
8. We talk about empowering people and businesses to realize their potential. We think of computing devices as tools — tools to entertain you, tools to amaze you, tools to let you be amazing.
9. We want to give people the ability to do what they want, where they want, and when they want on any device connected to the Internet-Steve Ballmer Quotes
10. I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
11. I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft-Steve Ballmer Quotes
12. Accessible design is good design.
13. Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards-Steve Ballmer Quotes
    

    

14. 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.
15. I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life-Steve Ballmer Quotes
16. I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
17. Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally-Steve Ballmer Quotes
18. Our company has to be a company that enables its people.
19. We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference-Steve Ballmer Quotes
20. What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’
21. 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 Quotes
22. And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that’s there.
23. 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 Quotes
24. I have lots of sources of information about what’s going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
25. I’m not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative-Steve Ballmer Quotes
26. Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
27. Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world-Steve Ballmer Quotes.

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