Make hiring a top priority. Steve Ballmer More Quotes by Steve Ballmer More Quotes From Steve Ballmer I'm going to f---ing kill Google. Steve Ballmer google I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly. Steve Ballmer doneideasthinking There's a huge crowd out there that basically will go nuts recommending to every coach on the planet, "Hey, coach, I've been playing with the analytics. I think you should do X, Y, and Z." Steve Ballmer heynutsthinking We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out. Steve Ballmer focusedtaxes At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way. Steve Ballmer ablejobsyears Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. Steve Ballmer strongtalkingthinking Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport. Steve Ballmer basketballbaseballsports It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions. Steve Ballmer new-directionspushingpeople 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. Steve Ballmer microsoftwould-beinteresting 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. Steve Ballmer googleguydone Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands. Steve Ballmer ambitionbelievemoving I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. Steve Ballmer monopolystupidknows The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we make them. A lot of people won't make a bold bet. A bold bet doesn't assure you of winning, but if you make no bold bets you can't continue to succeed. Our industry doesn't allow you to rest on your laurels forever. I mean, you can milk any great idea. Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets. Steve Ballmer winningmeanthinking Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. Steve Ballmer realstupidknowledge Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications - they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone. Steve Ballmer iphonetryinglooks You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones. Steve Ballmer smartphonesyears [Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue. Steve Ballmer applesissuespeople I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting. Steve Ballmer tabletsdonethinking We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good. Steve Ballmer economylastsyears Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud. Steve Ballmer waveinnovationclouds
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