Steve Ballmer Quotes

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• 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…
• Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
• 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:…
• 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…
• 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers…
• 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 have…
• You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that…
• I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.
• 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.
• Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
• We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
• 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…
• 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 work,…
• Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
• Accessible design is good design.
• I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
• The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone
• The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we…
• I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.
• I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

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