So if we want to find new growth streams, if we want to find new markets and new opportunity, we have got to compete for those new customers, because other nations are competing for those new customers."

VOA: special.2010.07.09

It's like you want passion for technology but you need passion for customers, and you got to get kind of the Yin and Yang.

就像你想要对技术的热情,但是却需要对消费者的热情，这又有点像阴阳之间的抉择。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Well, I want to say the most memorable customers are probably the ones that we like to see come in, and

我得说，大多数记得的顾客，可能会是我们希望能够来我们店里的客人，

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Another thing is that the customers do not want to take a cyclo with an old man like him driving.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

And we want to have more interdependency because customers are insisting.

我们想有更多的互相依赖,因为消费者总是坚持自身的立场。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

"I want to put money into bringing in more merchandise to give the customers more choices.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Some customers want to use your safe because safes are hard and expensive to get and some -and then you've got all this gold, so you might as well lend it out.

顾客需要使用你的保险箱,因为对个人而言保险箱既昂贵又难以获得,这样你就拿到他们的金子,然后你可以把金子借出去

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"I want to put more money into advertising to bring more customers in,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选