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Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

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Steve Ballmer
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 24
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Steven Anthony Ballmer
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There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.
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A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled. On the other hand, I have one and I use it.
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Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
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Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.
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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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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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I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.
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Make hiring a top priority.
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I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!
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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.
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In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.
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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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Developers, developers, developers...
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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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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.
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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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The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.
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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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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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