Steve Ballmer Quotes

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Steve Ballmer

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 24, 1956

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

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

Steve Ballmer

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Steve Ballmer

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

Steve Ballmer

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

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

Steve Ballmer

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

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

Steve Ballmer

In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn't just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo.

Steve Ballmer

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

Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That's quite important.

Steve Ballmer

I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.

Steve Ballmer

We will make our products work out of the box.

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

Accessible design is good design.

Steve Ballmer

If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.

Steve Ballmer

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

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

Steve Ballmer

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

Steve Ballmer

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

Steve Ballmer