No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' . — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up this company [Microsoft]. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
"There's no CEO for the government." But if you were CEO for a day at the government, would you have tools and… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
In general, I'm pretty busy with the other things I charted ... I bought a piece of a sports-tech company. We do… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I'm not an insider. I'm not on the board. I'm an outsider. That implies a certain kind of separation ... because the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
In many ways I think the company's doing quite a good job. If you look at the transition to Office 365 we… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC? — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
Every NBA arena has six cameras in the ceiling. The question is what does the software do with video feeds? How to surface that… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
In many ways I think the company's doing quite a good job. If you look at the transition to Office 365 we started when… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
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.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
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