Satya Nadella Quotes

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

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

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The next time you are in a meeting, ask the quietest person what they think. Invite everyone into the conversation. If you are on a conference call, ask the people on the phone to share their thoughts first.

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.

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

Instead of thinking of you working for Microsoft, think of how Microsoft can work for you.

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.

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.

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

To be a leader in this company, your job is to find the rose petals in a field of shit.

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.

I will always be a Hyderabadi.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Culture change means we will do things differently.

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

The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience.

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

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

This is a software-powered world.

The number one thing that you have to do as a leader: to bolster the confidence of the people you lead.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The bigger a company, the more responsibility its leader has to think about the world, its citizens and their long term opportunities.

I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

This culture [Microsoft's culture] needs to be a microcosm of the world we hope to create outside the company. One where builders, makers, and creators achieve great things. But, equally important, one where every individual can be their best self, where diversity of skin color, gender, religion, and sexual orientation is understood and celebrated.

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

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.

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.

Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.

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

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.

Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example
it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.

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

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.

At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

We must respond to opportunities before they become conventional wisdom.