Top 135 Quotes & Sayings by Satya Nadella
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Satya Nadella.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
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.
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.
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.
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.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.
I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.
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.
I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.
The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.
We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.
With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.
Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
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.
If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.
Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
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.
It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.
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.
We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.
Microsoft loves Linux.
I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.
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.
I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise.
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.
Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.
At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.
It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.
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.
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.
When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games.
When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.
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.
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.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
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.
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.
When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.
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