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
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.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.
At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.
Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.
If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.
We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.
You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.
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.
It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.
Microsoft loves Linux.
I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.
It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
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 broad, worldwide impact.
Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.
I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.
One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.
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.
One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.
There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.
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.
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.
I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.
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.
We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.
Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.
In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.
We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.
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.
I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.
At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.
The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience.
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?
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
Culture change means we will do things differently.
I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.
