Author: Steve Ballmer

Quotes

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

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

- Steve Ballmer

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

- Steve Ballmer

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

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

- Steve Ballmer

Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it's not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer.

Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it's not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer.

- Steve Ballmer

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

- Steve Ballmer

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

- Steve Ballmer

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

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

- Steve Ballmer

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.

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

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

- Steve Ballmer

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