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Steve Ballmer served over 20 years at Microsoft. During his tenure, the company pioneered personal computing and democratized enterprise computing, growing from a small start-up to a company that today employs more…
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One you have to get a unique insight. It starts there. Two, you need to be prepared to devote a lot of energy and commitment.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
A lot of philanthropy is making bets, seeing if they work, staying with them…it is more like being an investor in other people's good entrepreneurial ideas.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
Small companies will get an idea and try to scale up. Big companies have to decide when to extend, when to extend and scale, and when to do something new. They need to build capabilities in terms of insight and execution to do the new thing.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
Many forms of entrepreneurship don't lead to wealth, and but they are no less entrepreneurial.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
The most important thing a leader has to have is an idea on where they want to go and the ability to bring people with them. Dangerous leaders can be charismatic and effective at mobilizing people, but take them down a wrong path.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
Never was wealth the driver for me. – it was always hey, there's a cool idea here, let's make something of it. It was nice to be well rewarded, but the interesting part was working the problem, thinking about new things and how to bring them forward from being ideas to being products or new ways of doing things.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
One you have to get a unique insight. It starts there. Two, you need to be prepared to devote a lot of energy and commitment.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
The most important thing a leader has to have is an idea on where they want to go and the ability to bring people with them. Most discussion about leadership is about styles and characteristics, but the most important thing is having a clear sense — and a right sense — of where you want to go.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
Small companies will get an idea and try to scale up. Big companies have to decide when to extend, when to extend and scale, and when to do something new. They need to build capabilities in terms of insight and execution to do the new thing.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
Never was wealth the driver for me. – it was always hey, there's a cool idea here, let's make something of it. It was nice to be well rewarded, but the interesting part was working the problem, thinking about new things and how to bring them forward from being ideas to being products or new ways of doing things.
— Steve BallmerFormer CEO of Microsoft & Owner of Los Angeles Clippers
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