By Steve Ballmer, a Former Microsoft CEO, Ranked the Ninth Wealthiest Person in the World
As the saying goes, “Successful people don’t become what they’re overnight.” What we see at a glance- the wealth, great career, purpose, and happiness are the results of hustle over time and hard work. If you want to be successful one day, you’re going to love to hear about successful people, especially, the richest in the world.
In today’s post, we’re going to focus on Steve Ballmer, a man who led the famous Microsoft Company from 2000-2004. Let’s find out what makes him such a wealthy and powerful man, shall we?
To be successful, Steve Ballmer says you have to use each day as an opportunity to improve and build yourself. The man says you need to get a little bit closer to your goals every day to be better. This might sound like a lot of work, but with a busy schedule, you’re going to see the rewards this brings.
According to Steve Ballmer, the best part is that the more you want to accomplish daily, the more you will want to do, and the higher you’ll want to reach. In other words, Steve says, the hungry you’re for success, the more you will fight to achieve even what others find impossible. It is as simple as that, be hungry for wealth, and you’ll always find the power within you to achieve wealth.
Ballmer’s stable leadership skills enabled Microsoft to boost and become a successful brand during tough times. He has a staggering net worth of a whopping $71.8 billion. Better yet, he is an investor and is known to have spent a lot of his wealth investing in social solutions. Social Solution is a brand known to make software for the government agencies and other non-governmental organizations.
Being a high-wattage former CEO, Ballmer is said to have joined the company when it was only a team of fewer than two thousand employees. He is also famed for his expertise even after dropping out of Stanford University, where he pursued an MBA. He said what pushed him to drop and join Microsoft is because he saw the company was going to fail, and many workers had given up on moving it to the top. At that time, Microsoft was struggling to catch Google in search and wondering how it would get near to Apple in mobile phones at the same time.
When he retired from Microsoft, Steve Ballmer saw another opportunity in sports and decided to spend another $2 billion to buy the famous NBA Los Angeles Clippers. Still, Steve never took rest in using his money and investing; the same year, he purchased the basketball team; he donated over $2 billion into a donor-advised fund program, which is focused on supporting Americans from poverty.
In 2018, he came to news highlights again after being reported to invest about $59 million in his current company. When he was working for Microsoft, Steve played many roles. At one time, he was the senior vice president of sales and support, at another time; he was the senior vice president of system software and vice president of marketing.
During his service at Microsoft, he ensured the company grew to what we see today, from a start-up with less than two thousand workers to what we see today, having about one-hundred and ten thousand employees. At the time of his retirement, Ballmer has grown the company to about $80 billion in revenue and was ranked the third most profitable brand in the United States. Today, Ballmer remains a significant stakeholder of Microsoft and what most didn’t know is that Steve and Bill Gates were at one time in the same class at Harvard University.
In other news, Steve and his wife, Connie, serve as the co-founders of a Ballmer group company. The brand is known for its substantial supporting efforts to improve families’ and children’s economic mobility across the United States. Most of the families and children targeted are those who are disproportionately likely to remain in poverty over time. Steve and his wife are focused on philanthropic work that serves powerfully in places like Washington State, Michigan, and Los Angeles. For the better part, Steve grew up in Michigan, so he says he will not leave people to die or live miserable lives.
Steve is still the founder of another leading non-partisan and non-profit organization named USAFacts. According to news, this brand is one of the most liked by many when it comes to helping people with a comprehensive, understandable, and single-view online sources dealing with American government data and more.
USAFacts works exclusively in offering a well-visualized look of data and trends in the United States focused on demographics, policy outcomes, and helping Americans looking to engage in debates about how the government is impacting lives and more. Even though Steve Ballmer is a dropout, he is known to have taught at one of the leading Universities – Stanford University teaching a business leadership lesson.
Don’t let the world make you fearful. Look up to stories of successful people and even those who dropped out. Well, it’s may not be easy for you if you drop out, but if you have grit and focus, success is easy.
