Steve Ballmer Company Quotations

We have a pretty good reading of both Judge Jackson's decision and the law and a pretty good sense of the course that an appeal will take from our company over the conclusions of law, ... We remain entirely convinced that our behavior has been lawful, and we will appeal to establish that.

If we don't innovate, we don't have new versions. Nobody needs to upgrade. Nobody needs to buy. We have to have a variety of ways to innovate?We're at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline that our company has ever had.

IBM is increasingly a services company ... and we are, at the end of the day, a software company.

When should a company take a position on a broader social issue and when should it not? What message does the company taking a position send to its employees who have strongly-held beliefs on the opposite side of the issue?

Turner's experience as a proven leader of people in Wal-Mart's incredibly dynamic sales environment; his IT background as CIO of a world-class company and his familiarity with our products and technologies as a Microsoft customer for more than a decade uniquely qualify him to serve as our COO,

Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing,

In this world, it should be very easy for me, the end user, to have a program that runs on my PC that tells my bank and my insurance company and my broker to all put their financial information about me in my virtual safety deposit box on the Web, and let me view my information under my control.

I know no better place to base the company than here, ... the center of mobility.

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