Satya Nadella Quotes

#1. As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

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#2. Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.

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#3. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

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#4. With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

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#5. Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

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#6. I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.

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#7. We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.

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#8. When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.

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#9. What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

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#10. You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.

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#11. At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

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#12. If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.

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#13. Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

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#14. If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

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#15. To me, Microsoft is about empowerment ... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

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#16. Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.

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#17. I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

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#18. The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.

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#19. There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.

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#20. We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

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#21. I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

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#22. If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.

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#23. One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

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#24. I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that's what really gets me going.

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#25. We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

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#26. I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

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#27. I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

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#28. To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play.

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#29. I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

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#30. Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

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#31. The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

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#32. I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

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#33. The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

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#34. You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

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#35. Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

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#36. The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.

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#37. We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

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#38. This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

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#39. Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.

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#40. Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games.

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#41. Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

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#42. Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

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#43. Competition is not going to kill us.

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#44. When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

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#45. Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

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#46. A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.

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#47. LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

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#48. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

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#49. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

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#50. Culture change means we will do things differently.

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#51. We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

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#52. The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

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#53. Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

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#54. If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

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#55. Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

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#56. I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

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#57. The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

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#58. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

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#59. Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

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#60. We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

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#61. Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

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#62. One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.

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#63. Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

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#64. The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

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#65. This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places - as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

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#66. Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

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#67. What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.

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#68. I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.

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#69. It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.

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#70. What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.

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#71. We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.

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#72. I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.

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#73. I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.

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#74. Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

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#75. When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

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#76. When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.

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#77. From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.

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#78. It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

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#79. Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

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#80. We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

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#81. We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.

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#82. I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

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#83. There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.

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#84. You're trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it's that compression. The best code is poetry.

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#85. I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

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#86. The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

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#87. I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

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#88. I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise.

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#89. The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes.

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#90. In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

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#91. One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

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#92. The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.

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#93. In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

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#94. Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

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#95. I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.

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#96. There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?

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#97. In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

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#98. Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

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#99. It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

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#100. Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

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