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Steve Ballmer
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 24
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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's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.
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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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I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.
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Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.
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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 didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.
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I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.
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As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.
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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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I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?
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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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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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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.
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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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Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal and business mail and I have one set of contacts from my life. I don't want to manage two sets. I want one view of my world.
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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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Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.
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