Steve Ballmer Quotes

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.

Though the first iPhone was expensive, it was such a refreshing new product that early users flocked to it.

I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see what doesn't work and what has no chance of success.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.

Market share is key.

People always come up to me and ask what the next 'big short' will be. The truth is I simply do not have an answer, and do not want to have an answer, to this question.

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.

I like the PC market. It's a big market, but it's a very volatile market as well.

I want to invest in a functional product that people are using.

God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.

You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.

I was very bearish on natural gas for many years, pretty much from 2006 on. There was a tremendous natural gas bubble in the United States.

It's not a matter of being first, it's being there at the right time, being first in volume to market, and knowing what trends to stay away from.

Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.

Certain scripts require an ensemble cast. I'm absolutely fine with that. I will not deprive myself of the chance to be part of a good film because of insecurities or fear of losing my market. But my role must be well-defined.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.

Economists often get the market wrong.

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.