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Steve Ballmer is a distinguished businessman recognized for his role as CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. His tenure was marked by significant growth and expansion for the company. Post-Microsoft, Ballmer has been engaged in various business ventures and investments.

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“The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.”

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“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.”

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“This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.”

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“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.”

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“Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.”

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“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.”

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“You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.”

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“I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.”

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“We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”

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“I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.”

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“I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”

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“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.”

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“And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.”

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“Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.”

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“Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.”

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“Developers, developers, developers...”

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“This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.”

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“Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.”

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“Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.”

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“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.”

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“I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?”

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“I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.”

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“We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.”

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“All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.”

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

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“I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.”

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“I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.”

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“We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.”

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Born: March 24, 1956
Known for: Businessman
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