It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.
Steve BallmerI like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Steve BallmerOur industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.
Steve BallmerWhen you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high. At this stage, I get to pick and choose a little more. Not that there aren't some things that have to be done, but I get a little more control over my time.
Steve BallmerI'm not an insider. I'm not on the board. I'm an outsider. That implies a certain kind of separation ... because the company can't, without an appropriate nondisclosure and trading rules, share confidential data with me that it would not share with any other shareholder. You could say that implies a certain kind of separation.
Steve Ballmer