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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

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Steve Ballmer
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 24
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Steven Anthony Ballmer
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At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.
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Developers, developers, developers, developers.
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I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.
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I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?
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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.
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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.
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It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.
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No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.
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The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.
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The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.
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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.
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Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications - they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.
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Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.
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