Quotes from Steve Ballmer

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

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.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

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

I liked football a lot, too, but basketball clearly is my first love.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

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.

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.

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

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

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

We will make our products work out of the box.

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

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.

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

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

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.

The Clippers are the L.A. Clippers, and they will remain the L.A. Clippers. There is no question about that. I live in Seattle. I will continue to live in Seattle.

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

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.