Satya Nadella Quotes

• "Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience." - Satya Nadella

• "If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive." - Satya Nadella

• "Microsoft loves Linux." - Satya Nadella

• "I don’t want to fight old battles. I want to find new ones." - Satya Nadella

• "Learning to fly is not pretty but flying is." - Satya Nadella

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

• "This is a software-powered world." - Satya Nadella

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

• "Be passionate and bold." - Satya Nadella

• "I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise." - Satya Nadella

• "Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place." - Satya Nadella

• "Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience." - Satya Nadella

Quotes Microsoft

• "This is a software-powered world." - Satya Nadella

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

• "The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life." - 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

• "Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games." - Satya Nadella

• "Passion, toil, and training can help you to soar." - Satya Nadella

• "If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive." - Satya Nadella

• "Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn." - Satya Nadella

• "Learning to fly is not pretty but flying is." - Satya Nadella

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

• "From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed." - Satya Nadella

• "I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work." - Satya Nadella

Ceo Quotes

• "Over the next 10 years, we’ll reach a point where nearly everything has become digitized." - Satya Nadella

• "We want to empower people." - Satya Nadella

• "The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?" - Satya Nadella

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

• "Our job is to ensure Microsoft will thrive in a mobile and cloud-first world." - Satya Nadella

• "Listening was the most important thing I accomplished each day because it would build the foundation of leadership for years to come." - Satya Nadella

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

• "Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software." - Satya Nadella

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

• "We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings." - Satya Nadella

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

• "Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation." - Satya Nadella

Current Microsoft Ceo

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

• "We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences." - Satya Nadella

• "My approach is to lead with a sense of purpose and pride in what we do, not envy or combativeness." - Satya Nadella

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

• "The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life." - Satya Nadella

• "Passion, toil, and training can help you to soar." - Satya Nadella

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

• "Over the next 10 years, we’ll reach a point where nearly everything has become digitized." - 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

• "Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers." - Satya Nadella

• "Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines." - 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

Satya Nadella Inspiring Story

• "When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund." - Satya Nadella

• "David Golds, an engineer who left Microsoft in 2012 after 14 years with the company, decided to rejoin in 2017 under the new regime. "What changed was leadership, and everything followed from that," he says. "There was a tearing down of walls for software developers and tearing down of walls in the physical office." - Satya Nadella

• "We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere." - 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

• "I'm shaped by my Indian heritage, growing up in a multicultural India and my immigrant experience in the United States," he said. "My hope is for an India where an immigrant can aspire to found a prosperous startup or lead a multinational corporation benefiting Indian society and the economy at large." - Satya Nadella

• "The open-source concept, or the idea that software should be shared publicly for others to use, was popular among programmers who believed collaboration was key to technological progress. But Microsoft’s posture seemed to value its own bottom line over the collectivist ethos popular among the web’s early pioneers." - 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

• "The phrase, suggests that intelligence and talent are not fixed traits and that the true mark of success is one’s ability to learn. At Microsoft, it has become a sort of internal rallying cry. The walls of the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters campus are filled with inspirational quotes about "inviting in new ideas" and “fostering curiosity." - Satya Nadella

• "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." - 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

• "The good news, at least as I see it, is it's a messy democracy and people are debating it," Nadella said Monday. "It's not hidden. It's something that is being debated actively, but I'm definitely clear on what we stand for and what I stand for." - Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella Speech

• "Microsoft existed to "empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more." Though vague enough to deserve a place in the pantheon of corporate sweet nothings, the new mission offered a semantic shift that would define Microsoft for the five years that followed: It would become a people company instead of a product company." - Satya Nadella

• "In the past, clinging to the idea that says, Microsoft needed a phone or Microsoft needed an MP3 player led the company to continue investing in products that the market decidedly didn’t want. On the cultural side, employees were hesitant to surface new ideas for fear of breaking from the charted course." - 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

• "There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself." - Satya Nadella

• "But before Nadella began redesigning the internal review process or physical campus, his first order of business was to redefine the company's mission. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' famous mantra of  a computer on every desk" was no longer resonant for a 21st-century enterprise tech company." - 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

• "You see the growth mindset reflected in product decisions—like the company's investment in HoloLens' Microsoft's augmented-reality glasses that began as a moonshot project with a high risk of failure. You see it reflected in the promotion of continuous learning." - Satya Nadella

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

• "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

• "Quite simply stated, it doesn’t really take too much to be successful in life, it takes a few things in the right place and the so-called success defines itself. As long as we make sure that we take control of our life and we make sure that we are not bogged down by the little insecurities or the things we are not good at, it is alright, we can make it work. We need not be too tightly wound on the ideas of perfection for at least on the law of averages perfection never leads you anywhere because the answer most of the time is a zero." - 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 a broad, worldwide impact." - Satya Nadella

• "It is a combination of the two which makes the difference. The trick is to ensure that we are not consumed by either of them. We need to know the beauty of a temporary occurrence in life and treat it as such. Obviously, Satya Nadella seems to agree when he talks about the law of averages." - Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella Growth Mindset Quotes

• "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

• "Perhaps no system encapsulated Microsoft’s old culture of competition better than the company’s performance review system. In certain departments, managers were asked to assign a number one through five to each member of their team. According to employees who worked at the company during the Ballmer era, managers were encouraged to assign a certain number of fours and fives (the worst numbers), in a sort of implicit quota systPerhaps no system encapsulated Microsoft’s old culture of competition better than the company’s performance review system. In certain departments, managers were asked to assign a number one through five to each member of their team. According to employees who worked at the company during the Ballmer era, managers were encouraged to assign a certain number of fours and fives (the worst numbers), in a sort of implicit quota system." - Satya Nadella

• "Ballmer's Microsoft was also famous for not playing well with others. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times in 2001, Ballmer called Linux, an open-source operating system and popular Windows alternative, " cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." - 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

• "The beauty is that we oscillate between the two. Of late, something that has been constantly on my mind is our amazing ability to bring out those aspects of our life. Not that we are going to be successful each time – we are not! We are going to fall, we are going to make those mistakes. But what matters the most is how we deal with it, what we take out of it. After all, life is averaging, life is a mixture of things we do, the mixture of experiences and activities, a mixture of the positive and the negatives, a mixture that makes us feel incredibly strong and romantic, and also a mixture that makes us feel low and depressed. And that is how the law of averages works." - Satya Nadella

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