“You can’t invent if you can’t accept failure. To invent you need to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.”
“Innovation is the lifeblood of this industry.”‘
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
“It’s hard work and great people that make a company great, and I’ve been lucky to have a great team working with me.”
“The world is changing, but we’re all about changing the world.”
“I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.”
“Our people, our communities, and our country matter most.”
“Windows 8 is the rebirth of Microsoft Windows.”
“Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.”
“I’m a big advocate of believing in the dream, and that goes along with my entrepreneurial background.”
“People who are more technologically adept are going to be a more powerful force in the future. It is inevitable.”
“I want to see us do more innovation at a faster pace.”
“There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.”
“I’m not sure blogs are going to be necessarily the wave of the future.”
“Sometimes I can be accused of giving people too much detail about Microsoft’s technology.”
“We’re going to make our products easier to use, more intuitive, and more connected.”
“We will make decisions, some of which will be wrong, but most of which will be right.”
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
“In the software world, it’s very rare for a company to have the opportunity to have a strong impact on the world, to have a truly lasting legacy.”
“We’re all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.”
Steve Ballmer Quotes
“I love this company. Yeah!”
“It’s a mind-set. You can focus on what’s wrong in the world, or you can focus on what’s right.”
“Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.”
“We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.”
“The number one benefit of technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative.”
“I have always thought that if you have a long-term vision, you will certainly make mistakes. But, they will be mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.”
“The important thing is to take risks and not be afraid of failure.”
“I have four words for you: I love this company, yes!”
“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.”
“There’s no substitute for hard work, ever.”
“The thing that’s been true for Microsoft is that innovation starts with the platform.”
“Our industry is about as exciting as it gets.”
“Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.”
“I think Amazon is the leader in cloud computing.”
“Developers, developers, developers, developers!”
“I’m a fun-loving guy, I enjoy life.”
“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do.”
“The future of computing is not just in devices but in the cloud.”
“I’m going to do what I think is right.”
“A real leader faces the music even when he doesn’t like the tune.”
“The most important thing for me is that I just don’t want to go down the same path as everyone else. I want to do something that is different.”
“You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”
“We need to be the leading software company in the world.”
“Businesses change. They grow, they shrink, they make mistakes. The successful ones learn and adapt.”