Satya Nadella Quotes

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

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  Innovation, Doe, Tradition

  "Satya Nadella brings a new look to Microsoft, but that won't be enough" by Heidi Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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

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  Passionate, Useful Things, Keep Learning

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• 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.

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  Believe, People, Best Work

  "FTSE dips again after Asian markets slide, but UK construction booms - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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

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  Years, Way, Lasts

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

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  Inspirational, Successful, Average

  "Take A Closer Look At Satya Nadella, Who Could Become Microsoft's Next CEO" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. December 18, 2013.

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

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  Ambition, Desire, Culture

  "Microsoft's CEO Sent Out A Giant Manifesto To Employees About The Future Of The Company" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Culture

  "We sat down with Microsoft's CEO to discuss the past, present and future of the company". Interview with Krzysztof Majdan, Michał Wasowski, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2017.

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• 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.

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  Perseverance, Three, Microsoft

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• 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.

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  Keys, Passionate, Lasts

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• 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.

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  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO". news.microsoft.com. February 4, 2014.

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• 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?

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  Technology

  "We sat down with Microsoft's CEO to discuss the past, present and future of the company". Interview with Krzysztof Majdan, Michał Wasowski, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2017.

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

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  Technology

  "We sat down with Microsoft's CEO to discuss the past, present and future of the company". Interview with Krzysztof Majdan, Michał Wasowski, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2017.

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• The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

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  Jobs, Moving, Opportunity

  "Microsoft Names New Ceo, Gates' Role Changed" By Luke Karmali, www.ign.com. February 4, 2014.

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

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  People

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

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  Boundaries

  "We sat down with Microsoft's CEO to discuss the past, present and future of the company". Interview with Krzysztof Majdan, Michał Wasowski, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2017.

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

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  Clouds, Microsoft, World

  "Microsoft Needs a Real Plan, Not a Memo" by Mat Honan, www.wired.com. July 11, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Empowering, Creation, Achieve

  "We sat down with Microsoft's CEO to discuss the past, present and future of the company". Interview with Krzysztof Majdan, Michał Wasowski, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2017.

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

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  Team, Thinking, Careers

  "10 things to know: Satya Nadella" by Andrea Drusch, www.politico.com. February 4, 2014.

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• This is a software-powered world.

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  World, Software

  "Satya Nadella, New CEO of Microsoft Corp.: 8 Things You Need to Know" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Technology, Thinking

  "We sat down with Microsoft's CEO to discuss the past, present and future of the company". Interview with Krzysztof Majdan, Michał Wasowski, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2017.

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• 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.

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  Couple, Essence, Trying

  "Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO as Bill Gates steps down as chairman" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'

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  Karma, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Microsoft CEO's Comments Reflect A Larger Workplace Problem". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 10, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Mistake, Technology

  "'Our industry does not respect tradition': CEO Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. February 4, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Errors, Ideas, People

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• 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.

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  Party, Mean, Phones

  "Microsoft's CEO Sent Out A Giant Manifesto To Employees About The Future Of The Company" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2014.

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