Steve Ballmer Quotes

• We’ve grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grown, Profit

• We will make our products work out of the box.

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Work Out

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Innovation, Touch, Substitute

• 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

  Topics in Technology

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Self Improvement, Output, Innovation

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Impact, Shareholders, Expect

• Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Leader, Globally, Product

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Company

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Dimensions, Poorly, Ipod

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reacting, Pipeline, Results

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Intellectual

• 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

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Employees

• 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

  Tags in Variety, Pulse

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Team

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Reckless, Microsoft, Irresponsible, Thinking

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chair, Thrown

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Pulse

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Tags in Monopoly

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amazing, Revenue, Fiscal, Results

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Work

Steve Ballmer (28)

Birth:	24th March, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Chief Executive Officer

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