Steve Ballmer Quotes

"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 don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me."
-Steve Ballmer

"I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up this company [Microsoft]."
-Steve Ballmer in Positivity quotes.

"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

"I've never thrown a chair in my life."
-Steve Ballmer

"Mark's decision to leave was disappointing, ... and I urged him strongly to change his mind. But his characterization of that meeting is not accurate."
-Steve Ballmer

"Accessible design is good design."
-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