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Steve Ballmer
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 24
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Computer Scientist
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Detroit
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Steven Anthony Ballmer
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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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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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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.
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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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500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.
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I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.
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Make hiring a top priority.
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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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Accessible design is good design.
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I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.
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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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I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.
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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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It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.
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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.
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I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
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Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.
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I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!
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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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