Satya Nadella Quotes

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

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

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

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

This is a software-powered world.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

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.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

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

If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.

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

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

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

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

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.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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