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. – Satya Nadella
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. – Satya Nadella
I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here. – Satya Nadella
What matters is ‘Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?’ That’s our real goal, and that’s what we’re going to stay focused on. – Satya Nadella
There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we’re trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance? – 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
Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks – to me, that’s the future of Office. – 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
We’ve had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It’s going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future. – Satya Nadella
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. – Satya Nadella
When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund. – Satya Nadella
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes your not, but it’s the average that counts. – Satya Nadella
Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data… All of this will be mediated by software. – Satya Nadella
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves. – Satya Nadella
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. – 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
As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward. – Satya Nadella
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment… we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk. – 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
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. – 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
In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing – where the speed of light still matters – and because of geopolitics. – Satya Nadella
Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft. – Satya Nadella
With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time. – Satya Nadella
It’s not about the failure, it’s about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated. – Satya Nadella
