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Vote: | I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. |
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Vote: | I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution. |
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Vote: | I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. |
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Vote: | The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before. |
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Vote: | The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. |
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Vote: | What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' |
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Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft since January 2000. Ballmer is the first person ever to become a (US dollar) billionaire based on stock options received as an employee in a corporation of which neither he nor a relative was the founder. In 2004, Forbes ranked him the 19th richest person in the world with an estimated wealth of $12.4 billion.
Biography Steven Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father Frederick Ballmer was a Swiss immigrant and mother Beatrice Dworkin, a Jewish American woman. He grew up with his younger sister in Farmington Hills near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Company.
Even as he studied in the Detroit Country Day School, he was the manager of the school's basketball team. In 1973, he graduated from school with a grade point average of 4.0 and was the valedictorian of his class. He scored a perfect 800 on the math SATs and got a scholarship to Harvard University by competing in math tournaments. In the freshman year, a close friendship developed between Ballmer and his dorm mate Bill Gates, which continued even after Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard and started his own software company. At Harvard, Steve Ballmer was the advertising manager for The Harvard Crimson and The Harvard Advocate. In 1977, He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard.
He worked for two years at Procter & Gamble Co. as an assistant product manager and then joined Stanford Graduate School of Business to get an MBA degree but only to drop out of it a year later when Bill Gates invited him to work in his company. Ballmer joined Microsoft as a business manager and eventually got promoted to become the CEO of Microsoft in January 2000. Ballmer married Connie Snyder (a Microsoft employee herself) in 1990 and has three sons. The 1999 docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley featured Ballmer as a major character; he was played by actor John Di Maggio.
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