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Quotes by Steve Ballmer

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
– Steve Ballmer
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
– Steve Ballmer
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
– Steve Ballmer
The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.
– Steve Ballmer
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.
– 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
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
– Steve Ballmer
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
– Steve Ballmer
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
– Steve Ballmer
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.
– Steve Ballmer
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
– Steve Ballmer
Accessible design is good design.
– Steve Ballmer