Top 100 Satya's Quotes
#1. In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a way that I don't think would have been possible for me to do even if I'd seen it that way, to really talk about this mobile-first, cloud-first world.
Steve Ballmer
#2. Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.
Satya Nadella
#3. My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me
Gauri Khan
#4. 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.
Satya Nadella
#5. My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.
Satya Nadella
#6. We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.
Satya Nadella
#7. Culture change means we will do things differently.
Satya Nadella
#8. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Satya Nadella
#9. Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian.
Satya Bhabha
#10. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.
Satya Nadella
#11. You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing.
Satya Nadella
#12. I'm thinking about three things this morning. The obstacle is the path. Today is a good day. And what comes is a gift.
Satya Robyn
#13. LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.
Satya Nadella
#14. I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more.
Satya Bhabha
#15. 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.
Satya Nadella
#16. Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
Satya Nadella
#17. When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.
Satya Nadella
#19. Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.
Satya Nadella
#20. Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.
Satya Nadella
#21. For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.
Satya Bhabha
#22. Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games.
Satya Nadella
#23. 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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#24. 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.
Satya Nadella
#25. 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.
Satya Nadella
#26. 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.
Satya Nadella
#27. 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.
Satya Nadella
#28. It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
Satya Nadella
#29. Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.
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#30. In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
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#31. 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.
Satya Nadella
#32. 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.
Satya Nadella
#33. 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.
Satya Nadella
#35. He said knowledge should be free to everyone," said Satya defiantly. "That's what we believe."
"Just because someone believes the same thing you do doesn't mean they're a good person," said Elfwyn.
Sage Blackwood
#36. 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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#37. From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.
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#38. 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.
Satya Nadella
#39. 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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#40. Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.
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#41. We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.
Satya Nadella
#42. The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting.
Satya Bhabha
#43. 'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
Satya Bhabha
#44. Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.
Satya Nadella
#45. 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.
Satya Nadella
#46. I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.
Satya Nadella
#47. The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience.
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#49. Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
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#50. If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
Satya Nadella
#51. As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
Satya Bhabha
#52. What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.
Satya Nadella
#54. I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.
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#55. 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.
Satya Nadella
#56. Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.
Satya Nadella
#57. 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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#58. There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
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#59. 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.
Satya Nadella
#60. 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.
Satya Nadella
#61. 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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#62. 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.
Satya Nadella
#63. Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. 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.
Satya Nadella
#65. The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.
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#66. 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.
Satya Nadella
#67. You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
Satya Bhabha
#68. When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.
Satya Nadella
#69. 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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#70. 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.
Satya Nadella
#71. Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.
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#72. With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.
Satya Nadella
#73. 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.
Satya Nadella
#74. For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. 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.
Satya Nadella
#76. 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.
Satya Nadella
#77. We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.
Satya Nadella
#78. The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.
Satya Nadella
#79. I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
Satya Nadella
#80. If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
Satya Nadella
#81. 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.
Satya Nadella
#82. Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.
Satya Nadella
#83. My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. 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.
Satya Nadella
#85. 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.
Satya Nadella
#86. I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.
Satya Nadella
#87. The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.
Satya Nadella
#88. I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.
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#89. You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
Satya Nadella
#90. I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing ... and not much singing.
Satya Bhabha
#91. I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that's what really gets me going.
Satya Nadella
#92. Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data ... All of this will be mediated by software.
Satya Nadella
#93. 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.
Satya Nadella
#94. Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
Satya Nadella
#95. I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world.
Satya Nadella
#96. If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.
Satya Nadella
#97. Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let's figure out how to make that great. And then let's go figure out monetization.
Satya Nadella
#98. I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.
Satya Nadella
#99. We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.
Satya Nadella
#100. 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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