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 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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Learning, Creativity, Technology

  "The Astounding Impact of Innovative Technology in the Developing World" by Rev. Larry Hollon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Determine, Tenacious

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Chairs, Honestly, Thrown

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• Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

  Steve Ballmer

  Innovation, Computer, Operating Systems

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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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Knowledge, Learning, Iphone

  "More Ballmer Madness: "There's No Chance that the iPhone is Going to Get any significant market share" by Charlie Sorrel, www.wired.com. May 1, 2007.

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• 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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Jobs, Condolences, Heart

  "Nationwide Outpouring of Remembrance for Apple's Steve Jobs", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Leadership, Inspiration, Way

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Think Big, Bigs

  "Ballmer Kept It Super Weird At Goodbye Meeting With Microsoft". Goodbye speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2013.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Done, Tablets

  "Here's Why Surface Beats Apple's iPad: Ballmer" by Cadie Thompson, www.cnbc.com. November 9, 2012.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Cancer, Intellectual, Linux

  "Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times". Interview with Dave Newbart, web.archive.org. June 1, 2001.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Ideas, Done

  "Steve Ballmer: A Deal for Yahoo Would be Better If Done Soon" by Nick Wingfield, www.wsj.com. December 5, 2008.

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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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Hands, Years, Ideas

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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.

  Steve Ballmer

  People, Collections, Knows

  "Ballmer says Google's hiring pace is 'insane'". Bloomberg News, March 16, 2007.

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• Accessible design is good design.

  Steve Ballmer

  Death, Design, Good Design

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• I'm going to f---ing kill Google.

  Steve Ballmer

  Google

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Use, Compromise, Window

  "Live from Microsoft's CES 2011 keynote". www.engadget.com. January 05, 2011.

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Stupid, Monopoly, Knows

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Iphone, Internet

  "Ballmer: "The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Developers, developers, developers, developers.

  Steve Ballmer

  Developers

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Decision, Leader, Innovation

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• The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Microsoft, World

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Growth, Looks, Way

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

  Steve Ballmer

  Running, Life Is, Driven

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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