Steve Ballmer Quotes

Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy.

If you want to be rich, think big, think differently.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

The only way to accomplish big results is to think big and set big goals.

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

You have to think big to be big.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.