Steve Ballmer
Most people still steal music.Collection: People
When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high. At this stage, I get to pick and choose a little more. Not that there aren't some things that have to be done, but I get a little more control over my time.Collection: Running
500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.Collection: Stupid
Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.Collection: Goal
At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in.Collection: Investing
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.Collection: Clouds
We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.Collection: Communication
Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.Collection: Long
There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: People
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.Collection: Successful
If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.Collection: Team
I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.Collection: Giving
I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?Collection: Real
The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'Collection: Ipods
I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.Collection: Microsoft
I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.Collection: Kids
Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.Collection: Eye
It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.Collection: Government
It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.Collection: New Things
As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.Collection: Frustration
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.Collection: Guy
"There's no CEO for the government." But if you were CEO for a day at the government, would you have tools and reports and wherewithal to look at government the way a business would look at its lines of business, its spending, its revenue? I've actually been working, first by myself and then with a group of people, on then on and off, and now much more on, almost since the I time left Microsoft.Collection: Government
In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.Collection: Creativity
Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.Collection: Basketball
I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.Collection: Fun
Make hiring a top priority.Collection: Priorities
Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help give opportunity, particularly to kids growing up in very disadvantaged situations.And my initial kind of sense was, the government does that primarily, and what we should mostly do is pay our taxes. My wife said, no, I don't think that's quite right for us. We need to do more. We can do better.Collection: Growing Up
One might ask the question: Is the mortgage interest deduction doing a better job, a worse job, if it's supposed to promote homeownership and savings? Because home ownership is the biggest form of savings in this country. Different people will look at that data and draw different conclusions, but that's just an example of the kind of thing you can pull out of USAFacts and develop a point of view about.Collection: Country
I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.Collection: Basketball
I've been doing lot of work, and hopefully will bring it to fruition in a way people can see it, really understanding - this is going to sound funny, but what does government really do, how is it really funded, and what measures exist to evaluate how it does at what it does? No forecast, no policy, no prediction, just a realistic perspective on what is. Call it like a "10k for government" we've been working on with a website, with additional data.Collection: Government
If I was in government and running government, I think I would use the government data, because I wouldn't know where else to look, quite frankly. And if I didn't like that data, I would work hard to make sure it got better and better and better, whether it was at the state or local or federal level.Collection: Running
It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."Collection: Workout
A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, "Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled." On the other hand, I have one and I use it.Collection: Believe
Developers, developers, developers, developers.Collection: Developers
As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.Collection: Growth
I'm going to f---ing kill Google.Collection: Google
I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.Collection: Innovation
I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!Collection: Heaven
Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Business
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.Collection: Writing
Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal and business mail and I have one set of contacts from my life. I don't want to manage two sets. I want one view of my world.Collection: Views
My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years, I've really joined her in that. We're focused on issues in the United States, particularly issues with people who have been trapped in neighborhoods in what I might call intergenerational poverty.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Moving
I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experienceCollection: Love
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."Collection: Thinking
I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!Collection: Positive
The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.Collection: Broken