Steve Ballmer Quotes

Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

Businesswise, everything's been good.

Our business is strong and enjoys high margins.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

All of my businesses are profitable.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.