You are defined not just by your capabilities, but by the choices you make.
Satya Nadella
A leader must see the external opportunities and the internal capability and culture, and all of the connections among them and respond to them before they become obvious parts of the conventional wisdom.
Satya Nadella
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
Every opportunity i got, I took it as a learning experience.
Satya Nadella
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
Satya Nadella
Passion, toil, and training can help you to soar.
Satya Nadella
Be passionate and bold.
Satya Nadella
When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.
Satya Nadella
Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place.
Satya Nadella
The way I measure my life is – Am I better than I was last year?
Satya Nadella
The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.
Satya Nadella
Learning to fly is not pretty but flying is.
Satya Nadella
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
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
I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.
Satya Nadella
I don’t want to fight old battles. I want to find new ones.
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
I’m also grounded in our challenges, in fact, that’s the adventure which creates the competitive zeal in me to do great work.
Satya Nadella
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.
Satya Nadella
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
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
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
Microsoft is the productivity and Platform Company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Satya Nadella
Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.
Satya Nadella
Over the next 10 years, we’ll reach a point where nearly everything has become digitized.
Satya Nadella
Passion, toil, and training can help you to soar.
Satya Nadella
Sure, in this age of continuous updates and always-on technologies, hitting refresh may sound quaint, but still when it’s done right, when people and cultures re-create and refresh, a renaissance can be the result.
Satya Nadella
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?
Satya Nadella
The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.
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
There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
Satya Nadella
This is a software-powered world.
Satya Nadella
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
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 needed to build deeper empathy for our customers and their unarticulated and unmet needs. It was time to hit refresh.
Satya Nadella
We needed to convert Nietzsche’s courage in the face of reality, into courage in the face of opportunity.
Satya Nadella
We want to empower people.
Satya Nadella
What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
Satya Nadella