Steven Anthony Ballmer is an Entrepreneur and Investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 13, 2000, to February 4, 2014. He is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association.
2 – “Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing” – Steve Ballmer
3 – “Offered far more choices and benefits to consumers.” – Steve Ballmer
4 – “How are we going to go after the search market? The good old fashioned way, with innovation” – Steve Ballmer
5 – “More than ever, Microsoft’s growth opportunities abound as a result of our strong product innovation pipeline, … Kevin’s leadership of global technology, sales, marketing, and services will help us ensure we harness this potential and fully realize the growth opportunities before us.” – Steve Ballmer
6 – “There will be much closer relationships with telecom equipment makers, telecom service providers, software companies, and PC companies occurring over the next few years, … When we invested in AT&T, we invested in a partnership to secure the future of video services.” – Steve Ballmer
7 – “Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.” – Steve Ballmer
8 – “In this world, it should be easy for me to tell my travel agent Web site to make sure to update my calendar with my trip and to page my mother if my flight is going to be more than an hour late.” – Steve Ballmer
9 – “…obviously one of the keys for us in music and video is to make sure we have an integrated and strong portable device … [shrugs] business.” – Steve Ballmer
10 – “We need to deliver a breakthrough version of Windows that allows PCs and servers to support these next-generation services and host them out there on the Internet” – Steve Ballmer
11 – “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.” – Steve Ballmer
12 – “My industry colleagues and I remain eager to work with the Department to support the homeland security mission. We look forward to working with you to pursue opportunities for technology to make cyberspace, and the homeland, more secure.” – Steve Ballmer
13 – “We need to have service offerings associated with each of the products that allow us to feed innovations that are appropriate to the market on, let’s just call it a six-, probably more realistically a nine-month cycle” – Steve Ballmer
14 – “We believe this has the potential over time to be a major new revenue stream,”
15 – “Just as we succeeded on the desktop, we will strive to succeed in services on the Web,”
16 – “I’m very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There’s so much opportunity. Let’s just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.” – Steve Ballmer
17 – “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” – Steve Ballmer
18 – “Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.” – Steve Ballmer
19 – “My children – in many dimensions they behave poorly like 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.” – Steve Ballmer
20 – “Our company has to be a company that enables its people.” – Steve Ballmer
21 – “It’s hard to invent a new thing, and it’s just as hard to invent another new thing.” – Steve Ballmer
22 – “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.” – Steve Ballmer
23 – “So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.” – Steve Ballmer
24 – “Vista will be out next year. Vista has never been delayed. I mean, we had earlier conceptualizations, but the thing that is Vista is on its track.” – Steve Ballmer
25 – “We’ve grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.” – Steve Ballmer
26 – “We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.” – Steve Ballmer
27 – “What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?'” – Best Steve Ballmer Quotes
28 – “This agreement is a significant milestone for consumers and content owners since it will greatly extend the reach and flexibility of digital entertainment in the home. By integrating our Windows Media(R) platform technologies with the DIRECTV service, we have created a pipeline for an incredible variety of premium digital entertainment to move seamlessly and securely throughout the home to anywhere a DIRECTV customer wants to enjoy it.” – Steve Ballmer
29 – “By bringing together the software experience and the service experience, we will better address the changing needs of our customers’ digital lifestyles and the new world of work.” – Steve Ballmer
30 – “We have an incredible opportunity…to revolutionize the Internet user experience. We need to deliver our next-generation services platform in order to do that. And we need Bill Gates 100 percent focused on helping architect that.” – Steve Ballmer
31 – “Our customers have been intimately involved in the development process for Windows 2000 since its inception, and they expect nothing less than the highest-quality, most reliable platform on which to run their businesses.” – Steve Ballmer
32 – “Given the excitement and enthusiasm from many of the game developing companies here in Japan, I expect us to do quite well” – Steve Ballmer Quotes
33 – “Turner’s experience as a proven leader of people in Wal-Mart’s incredibly dynamic sales environment; his IT background as CIO of a world-class company and his familiarity with our products and technologies as a Microsoft customer for more than a decade uniquely qualify him to serve as our COO” – Steve Ballmer
34 – “Cars come in all shapes and sizes… I’ll be the judge of this thing..” – Steve Ballmer
35 – “In general, 50 percent of searchers do not lead to the desired outcome. Does anybody not believe that the search experience is going to be dramatically better 10 years from now? Does anybody deny it would be nice to search within the enterprise and outside the enterprise?” – Steve Ballmer
36 – “This summit is a celebration of the exceptional innovation taking place throughout the advertising industry and its vital importance to Microsoft. Just as the ad community is enabling us to deliver more and better software services across Microsoft for consumers, we are dedicated to creating even more valuable business opportunities for advertisers via the world’s largest, most comprehensive set of online services.” – Steve Ballmer Quotes
37 – “Accessible design is good design.” – Steve Ballmer
38 – “We want to give people the ability to do what they want, where they want, and when they want on any device connected to the Internet” – Steve Ballmer
39 – “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
40 – “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
41 – “I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.” – Steve Ballmer
42 – “We will make our products work out of the box.” – Steve Ballmer
43 – “We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.” – Steve Ballmer
44 – “All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast-acting, and fast-moving in the marketplace. We’ve got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.” – Steve Ballmer Quotes
45 – “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.” – Steve Ballmer
46 – “Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We’ll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I’m very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.” – Steve Ballmer
47 – “Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.” – Steve Ballmer
48 – “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.” – Steve Ballmer
49 – “Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.” – Steve Ballmer
50 – “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
51 – “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.” – Steve Ballmer
52 – “I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.” – Steve Ballmer
53 – “I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.” – Steve Ballmer
54 – “I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.” – Steve Ballmer Quotes
55 – Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.” – Steve Ballmer
