Steve Ballmer Quotes

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

At Manchester, everyone plays for himself and does what he wants but it works out in the end.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

When people come together, they become much more productive.

Remember, America: organization will set you free.

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

We need a strategy. And the goal is to bring millions of people together.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.