Steve Ballmer Quotes

Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

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

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

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.

I'd like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

Most people still steal music.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

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

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

I'm going to f
ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f
ing kill Google.

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

I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

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

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.

We will make our products work out of the box.

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

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

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

Accessible design is good design.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone

The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.

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

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

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.

I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

Make hiring a top priority.

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone,

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

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

I'm going to f
ing kill Google.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

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

I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.

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

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!

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

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

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

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Whatever device you use ... Windows will be there ... Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.