Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula. – Satya Nadella
We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. – Satya Nadella
We have only one Windows. We don’t have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it’s one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output. – Satya Nadella
I’m not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation. – 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
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
When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm. – Satya Nadella
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop. – Satya Nadella
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. – Satya Nadella
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. – Satya Nadella
You’ve got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we’re doing with Lumia, we’re at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing. – Satya Nadella
Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let’s figure out how to make that great. And then let’s go figure out monetization. – 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
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. – Satya Nadella
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it’s Minecraft. – Satya Nadella
My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions. – Satya Nadella
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? – 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
A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly. – Satya Nadella
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. – Satya Nadella
In our business, things look like a failure until they’re not. It’s pretty binary transitions. – Satya Nadella
