Steve Ballmer Quotes

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

Leadership, Work, Great

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

Children, Kids, Google

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

Technology, Before, Sense

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

Until, Somebody, Monopoly

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer

Try, Anyone, Break

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

Sense, Cancer, Property

Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer

Design, Good, Accessible

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

Real, House, Company

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

Life, Honestly, Thrown

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

Leadership, Team, Highly

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

Company, Enables

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
Steve Ballmer

Leader, Market, Mail

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

Business, Difference, Share

We will make our products work out of the box.
Steve Ballmer

Work, Box, Products

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

Business, Trust, Through

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

Great, Moving, Team

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.
Steve Ballmer

Great, Number, Innovation

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

Great, Year, Company

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

Great, Strong, Before

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

History, Amazing, Greatest

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.
Steve Ballmer

Good, Thinking, Pretty

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

Best, May, Place

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

Time, After, Tell

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

Best, Last, Ideas

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

Change, Succeed, Touch

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 28, 1956

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