Satya Nadella quotes

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.

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.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

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.

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.

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.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

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.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

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.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

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.

India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.