If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter's right there. They've established a brand in a world where it's extremely difficult to establish a brand. It's a global brand, people recognize it, people want to let you know what their Twitter handles are, etc.

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

Steve Ballmer

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Steve Ballmer

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

Steve Ballmer

Accessible design is good design.

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Steve Ballmer

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Steve Ballmer

If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter's right there. They've established a brand in a world where it's extremely difficult to establish a brand. It's a global brand, people recognize it, people want to let you know what their Twitter handles are, etc.

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

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

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

Steve Ballmer

I love Los Angeles. I love Seattle, too, which is where we have our home. But the notion of spending a lot of time in Los Angeles has been exciting to me for years. The community down there is great.

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Steve Ballmer

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.

Steve Ballmer

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

Steve Ballmer

If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.

Steve Ballmer