Steve Ballmer Quotes

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

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

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

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.

Make hiring a top priority.

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 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

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

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

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

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

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

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

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

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, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

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

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

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

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

Most people still steal music.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

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

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

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

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

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