Steve Ballmer Quotes

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

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

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

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.

Accessible design is good design.

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

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

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 will determine your success.

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.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

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

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.

Developers, developers, developers...

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

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

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

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

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.

There's a huge crowd out there that basically will go nuts recommending to every coach on the planet, "Hey, coach, I've been playing with the analytics. I think you should do X, Y, and Z."

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

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

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

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: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

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

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

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.

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.

I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

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

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

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

I'm going to f---ing kill Google.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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