Satya Quotes

I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

This is a software-powered world. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people). ~ Dada Bhagwan

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi. ~ Satya Bhabha

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

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

I'm not a big sing-and-dance man. ~ Satya Bhabha

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

But Sir, he works with NT? Why would he tell us where to go? Aren't we the competition?' Satya asked.
Nagesh shook his head gravely. 'Actually the competition starts at the headquarters and is between the people who come on TV, and want to make sure their face is noticed by the rival channel, so that they get picked up for a higher salary. Between us camerapersons, there is no rivalry. We don't do piece to cameras, we don't come on TV. We do all the jostling to get you the best visuals to show on the channel. We just want to get the news to the viewers, no matter which logo is pasted on it. ~ Shweta Ganesh Kumar

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

To live in the presence of God who is Truth ( satya ) -- this indeed is the meaning of satsang. ~ Anandamayi Ma

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good. ~ Steve Ballmer

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

She leans over Roop the way Sardarji leaned over Satya the years she cried for children, brushing tears from Roop's heavy lashes with her lips. She strokes her head as a mother would, says. "Slpee little one, we are together now."
And Roop sleeps, overcome by the afternoon heat.
While Satya watches her.
So trusting, so very stupid. ~ Shauna Singh Baldwin

Culture change means we will do things differently. ~ Satya Nadella

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

We must respond to opportunities before they become conventional wisdom. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more. ~ Satya Bhabha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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? ~ Satya Nadella

I will always be a Hyderabadi. ~ Satya Nadella

How do we negotiate between my history and yours? How would it be possible for us to recover our commonality, not the ambiguous imperial-humanist myth of those shard human (and indeed also most divine) attributes that are supposed to distinguish us absolutely from animals but, more significant, the imbrications of our various pasts and presents, the ineluctable relationships of shred and contested meanings, values, and material resources? It is necessary to assert our dense particularities, our lived and imagined differences; but can we afford to leave untheorized the question of how our differences are intertwined and, indeed, hierarchically organized? Could we, in other words, afford to have entirely different histories, to see ourselves living - and having lived - in entirely heterogenous and discrete spaces? ~ Satya P. Mohanty

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just as a shareholder, we'll sit down and chat. That's always quite helpful for me and hopefully him in terms of thinking things through. I still have a number of friends and colleagues who occasionally want to brainstorm or chat about something, and that's always fun. ~ Steve Ballmer

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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? ~ Satya Nadella

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

'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

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

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. ~ Satya Nadella

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

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

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

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

Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian. ~ Satya Bhabha

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

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