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Steve Ballmer
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 24
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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.
Steve Ballmer
All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.
Steve Ballmer
No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.
Steve Ballmer
Most people still steal music.
Steve Ballmer
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
I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?
Steve Ballmer
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
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.
Steve Ballmer
Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Steve Ballmer
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
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
I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.
Steve Ballmer
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
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
Steve Ballmer
It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.
Steve Ballmer
Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.
Steve Ballmer
Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.
Steve Ballmer
I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.
Steve Ballmer
This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer
