#al

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#accountability #before #comes #companies #criticism

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#back #being #come #company #double-digit

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#after #board #bullish #employees #get

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#leader #mail #market #our #product

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bad #exaggerate #happiness #happy #misfortune

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#caused #gone #last #microsoft #people

I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage. ↗

— Ed Balls

#back #bidding #define #defined #doing

such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #beauty

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#love #only #reality #recognized