Steve Ballmer Quotes

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

I literally have a private jet on call at all times.

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.