325 Quotes by 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.

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

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

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.

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

As a businessman, if you ask me what I'm proud of, I'm proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn't just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo.