Steve Ballmer Quotes

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

The person who fails the most wins.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

I think we are a better and a more efficient society when people actually get to do the things that they really are passionate about, and really are amazing at, because it's going to mean better stuff for us, too.

The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you're probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It's just that simple.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

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.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.