Steve Ballmer Quotes

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don't know about 'took off.' I'm not in the stratosphere.

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

You can't be in a certain business and not sell to Amazon or not sell to Wal-Mart. You have to reckon with them, because even though there are other buyers, they're the only buyers that matter.

With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it.

Market share is key.

Competition matters.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.

What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right.

It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader.

With the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, and iMac, Apple is the most powerful tech company in the world. It's also the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S. and among the top sellers of online movies, too.

Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

My famous line is 'Product is king.'