American - Businessman | March 24, 1956 -
You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.
Steve Ballmer
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I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.
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There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.
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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.
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What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
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I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
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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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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.
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My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
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Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
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Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.
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So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.
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