Steve Ballmer quote: "Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish."

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, th...
STEVE BALLMER

In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn&#...
STEVE BALLMER

Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, ...
STEVE BALLMER

From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens...
STEVE BALLMER

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
STEVE BALLMER

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we...
STEVE BALLMER

If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.
STEVE BALLMER

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.
STEVE BALLMER

We will make our products work out of the box.
STEVE BALLMER

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed...
STEVE BALLMER

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.
STEVE BALLMER

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
STEVE BALLMER

Accessible design is good design.
STEVE BALLMER

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
STEVE BALLMER

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last fiv...
STEVE BALLMER

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.
STEVE BALLMER

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was ...
STEVE BALLMER

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right...
STEVE BALLMER

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we ...
STEVE BALLMER

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
STEVE BALLMER

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our custom...
STEVE BALLMER

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.
STEVE BALLMER

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a cer...
STEVE BALLMER

When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your sched...
STEVE BALLMER

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
STEVE BALLMER

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least ...
STEVE BALLMER

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to ...
STEVE BALLMER

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in t...
STEVE BALLMER

It's the most tested, most widely-implemented product in the test phase of anything we've ever built...
STEVE BALLMER

[Two months later Oracle nemesis Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft, was asked to respond to Elli...
STEVE BALLMER

Our goal with this set of releases is to have something for everybody, ... We haven't forgotten the ...
STEVE BALLMER

The hackers out there are really are smart and getting smarter. We all have to run in front of them.
STEVE BALLMER

In general, 50 percent of searches do not lead to the desired outcome. Does anybody not believe that...
STEVE BALLMER

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vi...
STEVE BALLMER

IBM says we have a team of consultants and we can help you innovate. But at the end of the day, unlo...
STEVE BALLMER

Open source software does not today respect the intellectual property rights of any intellectual pro...
STEVE BALLMER

Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the ti...
STEVE BALLMER

Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets.
STEVE BALLMER

...obviously one of the keys for us in music and video is to make sure we have an integrated and str...
STEVE BALLMER

Bill, help me up..
STEVE BALLMER

All of our major businesses can have a short-twitch capability every six to nine months to a long-tw...
STEVE BALLMER

It's top priority for us to be an innovative company,
STEVE BALLMER

I think Office 12 will be the most exciting Office release we've had since Office 4,
STEVE BALLMER

I think this is a very meaningful way for us to concludes this litigation and to be able to really f...
STEVE BALLMER

This is the next generation of the Internet,
STEVE BALLMER

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.
STEVE BALLMER

The thing I put in my pocket has got to do more for me. It's got to let me access more information t...
STEVE BALLMER

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.
STEVE BALLMER

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making,
STEVE BALLMER

It's a real reflection of the respect that I have, and that many of our people have, for Kevin as a ...
STEVE BALLMER

heard loud and clear, 'You will change some things.'
STEVE BALLMER

If you look at the dollars, everything about our prices are quite different than classic enterprise ...
STEVE BALLMER

We realized we needed to give our core leaders deeper control and accountability in the way they run...
STEVE BALLMER

Mark's decision to leave was disappointing, ... and I urged him strongly to change his mind. But his...
STEVE BALLMER

But IT pros should ask one thing and one thing only: 'Am I getting the best products and services th...
STEVE BALLMER

We had too many products that we were trying to sell to too few customers in the mid-market.
STEVE BALLMER

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers,...
STEVE BALLMER

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the i...
STEVE BALLMER

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
STEVE BALLMER

[During the bachelor years in the early '80s, the math-camp mentality was accompanied by a frat-boy ...
STEVE BALLMER

I was all excited. I went and shook hands with Tommy, and the first thing he pointed out to me was I...
STEVE BALLMER

In this era of the web and web services, and new technologies, there's many more opportunities to in...
STEVE BALLMER

We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
STEVE BALLMER

Our customers have been intimately involved in the development process for Windows 2000 since its in...
STEVE BALLMER

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up this compan...
STEVE BALLMER

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a...
STEVE BALLMER

I've never thrown a chair in my life.
STEVE BALLMER

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to ...
STEVE BALLMER

We recognize that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been ruled improper by the c...
STEVE BALLMER

A breakup of Microsoft, I think, would be an awful thing for consumers and for the industry. The rea...
STEVE BALLMER

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
STEVE LARGENT

YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
STEVE CHEN

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald's is delivering great service, great quality food, ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie...
STEVE IRWIN

There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.
STEVE CHEN

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk....
STEVE IRWIN

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
STEVE IRWIN

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
STEVE IRWIN

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
STEVE IRWIN

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
STEVE IRWIN

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we ...
STEVE IRWIN

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from...
STEVE IRWIN

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been s...
STEVE IRWIN

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
STEVE IRWIN

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm get...
STEVE IRWIN

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to...
STEVE IRWIN

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted wi...
STEVE IRWIN

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet...
STEVE IRWIN

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
STEVE IRWIN

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
STEVE IRWIN

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
STEVE IRWIN

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, ...
STEVE IRWIN

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris...
STEVE HARVEY

It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed ...
STEVE ALFORD

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
STEVE KING

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?&#...
STEVE JOBS

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night ...
STEVE JOBS

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w...
STEVE JOBS

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The a...
STEVE JOBS

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
STEVE JOBS

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake...
STEVE IRWIN

I used to have a pseudonym for Twitter, and I'm trying to get my check to verify me.
STEVE MNUCHIN

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
STEVE ALBINI

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means...
STEVE STOCKMAN

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist ...
STEVE VAI

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and Novembe...
STEVE SABOL

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue befo...
STEVE BUYER

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and...
STEVE BUYER

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
STEVE BUYER

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong,...
STEVE BUYER

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching w...
STEVE BUYER

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about...
STEVE BUYER

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready...
STEVE BUYER

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs...
STEVE BUYER

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
STEVE BUYER

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence ...
STEVE BUYER

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.
STEVE BUYER

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighti...
STEVE BUYER

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide ar...
STEVE BUYER

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
STEVE BUYER

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best a...
STEVE BUYER

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values f...
STEVE BUYER

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commi...
STEVE BUYER

I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's...
STEVE FINLEY

I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

The people of Florida's 2nd Congressional District said, 'Steve, go up there and fight to ch...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a ...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

Work is life. Work is opportunity.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you wi...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I came out of the private sector, a life that I enjoyed. I sleep in a bed every night with a woman I...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of Ameri...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected ...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, ...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the b...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't g...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

If you can make money with your talents, why not?
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slo...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

This is my last year at Oregon, and it means a lot to me. The people have been great to me up there,...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 me...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Nobody likes tainted victories.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

What I want is to be number one.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took o...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of thi...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that ha...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perf...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back t...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set...
STEVE HANKE

In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written und...
STEVE HANKE

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and ch...
STEVE JURVETSON

Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland.
STEVE BREEN

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black ...
STEVE ERICKSON

I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven...
STEVE CARELL

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate...
STEVE NASH

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop,...
STEVE NASH

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage...
STEVE MNUCHIN

When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understanda...
STEVE NASH

We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need – tr...
STEVE GOODIER

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into ...
STEVE WOZNIAK

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck t...
STEVE SABOL

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also ...
STEVE WOZNIAK

[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how eve...
STEVE TOLTZ

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

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Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

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