325 Quotes by Steve Ballmer

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.

There’s a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we’re going to compete, we’re going to compete very, very hard.

I didn’t leave business school to go bankrupt.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you’re running a company.

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.

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.

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.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen.’