Steve Ballmer Business Quotations

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

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

Getting the most out of their people is on the mind of every business leader I speak with. (We) are passionate about the idea that the right software can provide the tools to empower workers to become the drivers of business success.

Our workflow and Business Intelligence capabilities have been really worked on in Office 12, and they will work out of the box as well as with some other ERP and CRM applications,

We realized we needed to give our core leaders deeper control and accountability in the way they run their businesses, while at the same time ensuring strong communication and collaboration across business units.

This summit is a celebration of the exceptional innovation taking place throughout the advertising industry and its vital importance to Microsoft. Just as the ad community is enabling us to deliver more and better software services across Microsoft for consumers, we are dedicated to creating even more valuable business opportunities for advertisers via the world's largest, most comprehensive set of online services.

And we learned an important lesson: Today's business software doesn't look enough like today's businesses,

We're talking about making people in business more productive every day. IBM is talking about doing a project.

These changes are designed to align our Business Groups in a way that will enhance decision-making and speed of execution, as well as help us continue to deliver the types of products and services our customers want most.

But IT pros should ask one thing and one thing only: 'Am I getting the best products and services that allow me to run my business at maximum efficacy.' The answer for the lion's share of the time will be in favor of Microsoft products and solutions, and we feel you shouldn't have to think about Linux if you do not want to,

This is a very large business that still has incredible possibilities.

The future of our business and telecommunications is increasingly linked, and our interest in the telecom field is broad,

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.

The key is that for every business we have is to offer the things that pop every six to nine months, things that pop every couple of years, and things that pop longer than that.

There's a whole set of decisions that might have had to percolate to Bill Gates and I because they crossed the seven ... business groups that are now contained in these three divisions, and I think that ought to lead to crisper, faster actions on certain kinds of decisions we need to make,

There's a lot of work that needs to happen. And as the Internet makes this transition, and as we try to transition our business with it, we know we need to have the same kind of long-term approach and patience that we had with Windows itself,

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.