Steve Ballmer Quotes (132 Quotes)


    The key is that for every business we have is to offer the things that pop every six to nine months, things that pop every couple of years, and things that pop longer than that.

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

    The future of our business and telecommunications is increasingly linked, and our interest in the telecom field is broad,

    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.

    We're talking about making people in business more productive every day. IBM is talking about doing a project.


    Cars come in all shapes and sizes.. I'll be the judge of this thing..

    Through deep collaboration with our customers and partners, today we're delivering powerful new platform capabilities with unprecedented integration between the server infrastructure and development tools.

    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.

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

    We recognize that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been ruled improper by the court, so we are providing computer manufacturers with greater flexibility and we are doing this immediately so that computer manufacturers can take advantage of them in planning for the upcoming release of Windows XP,

    The company's MSN Search engine will join the game with the market leader in that business, and remind people that this is the center of computer innovation, ... We're going to be the center of innovation in that search business, also.

    IM inter-operability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole.

    There's no mission critical enterprise job today you should feel uncomfortable running on the Microsoft platform. There is no job that's too big to run on Microsoft and the Windows platform.

    Microsoft's collaboration with Cable Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

    Today's announcements underscore our commitment to executing decisively and rapidly in the online services space by forming a seasoned management team that is dedicated to improving and facilitating commerce for consumers,

    In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation.

    Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal and business mail and I have one set of contacts from my life. I don't want to manage two sets. I want one view of my world.

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

    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.

    Under Ray's technical leadership and weaving together both software and software-based services, I see incredible opportunity to better address the changing needs of our customers' digital lifestyles and the new world of work.

    More of what we do will live on the Internet, ... Nobody will have software products in 10 years. Everyone will have products and services. It will be hard to tell the difference between software products and services.

    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.

    If you can find a classic enterprise piece of software that sells for a few hundred dollars, then its maintenance, too, might have to be a little higher than the percent people think of as typical, ... I don't seriously propose it, but the way to get the percentage down would have been to raise the price of the original license, which I don't think anybody would have liked either. I think the Software Assurance price is a fair price.

    Rick has worked closely with me analyzing the company's structure to determine how we could improve our internal processes and maximize opportunities for growth,

    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.

    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.

    If you look at our track record over time, investors who have been with us long term are very happy with the kind of returns that they have received, ... I'd encourage investors to again take that long term outlook.

    Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

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

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

    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.

    We don't trounce our competition, ... We compete.

    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.

    If we don't innovate, we don't have new versions. Nobody needs to upgrade. Nobody needs to buy. We have to have a variety of ways to innovateWe're at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline that our company has ever had.

    We have a pretty good reading of both Judge Jackson's decision and the law and a pretty good sense of the course that an appeal will take from our company over the conclusions of law, ... We remain entirely convinced that our behavior has been lawful, and we will appeal to establish that.

    We have very strong momentum, particularly in the northern parts of Europe, United States, Australia ... I know for sure, 100 percent, we will do much better in Japan than we did with Xbox 1,

    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.

    These changes are designed to align our Business Groups in a way that will enhance decision-making and speed of execution, as well as help us continue to deliver the types of products and services our customers want most.

    There are short-term deliverables, but this transformation ... will not happen in six months or a year, or two years,

    I do think that there is such a strong interest in demand for improvements in information technology that we will continue to see a pretty strong information technology sector, no matter what happens with some of these global economic factors,

    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.

    This year we are really ramping up the energy with a new ad campaign around Windows Mobile. We are launching new versions of Outlook and Exchange and one of the top priorities of our sales force will be to drive Windows Mobile into the enterprise to allow things to flourish.

    We're excited because acquiring UMT will help us meet customers' needs for deep portfolio management capabilities. By combining our software and expertise, we'll also create a new range of solution development opportunities for customers and partners.

    We believe this has potential over time to be a major new revenue stream,

    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,

    Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing,

    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.

    ...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.

    In general, 50 percent of searches 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

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


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