Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter's right there. They've established a brand in a world where it's extremely difficult… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than… — 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
The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about… — 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
I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance 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
I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC? — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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