Steve Ballmer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 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.”
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“The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.”
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“I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work,”
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“I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.”
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“The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.”
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“Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.”
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“I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.”
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“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.”
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“Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.”
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“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.”
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“Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.”
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“I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.”
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“It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.”
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“And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.”
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“Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.”
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“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
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“It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.”
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“Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.”
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“Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.”
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“I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”
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“Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.”
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“You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.”
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“You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone,”
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“At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in.”
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“I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.”
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“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.”
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“I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.”
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“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.”
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“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
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