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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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