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

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.

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.

Faith reveals the potential.

The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

Next to the wound what women make best is the bandage.

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Women can have their own kids and not have a husband or not have a partner.

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.