Satya Nadella quotes

Satya Nadella is an Indian-born business executive and the CEO of Microsoft. Under his leadership, the company shifted its focus to cloud computing and expanded its global influence. He is widely recognized for transforming Microsoft’s culture and driving significant innovation. Here are 89 of his quotes:

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

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We will continue to be in the phone market not as defined by today's market leaders, but by what it is that we can uniquely do in what is the most ultimate mobile device.

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We have a lot of work to do. We have 90% of PC [market] share and 14% of total device share. We get that.

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AI is going to be one of the trends that is going to be the next big shift in technology. It's going to be AI at the edge, AI in the cloud, AI as part of SaaS applications, AI as part of in fact even infrastructure. And to me, to be the leader in it, it's not enough just to sort of have AI capability that we can exercise-you also need the ability to democratize it so that every business can truly benefit from it. That to me is our identity around AI.

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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.

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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.

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We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.

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What I think needs to be done in 2018 is more dialogue around the ethics, the principles that we can use for the engineers and companies that are building AI [artificial intelligence], so that the choices we make do not cause us to create systems with bias.

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We are the only ones who can harness the power of software and deliver it through devices and services that truly empower every individual and every organization. We are the only company with history and continued focus in building platforms and ecosystems that create broad opportunity.

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Nothing is off the table in how we think about shifting our culture to deliver on this core strategy. Organizations will change. Mergers and acquisitions will occur. Job responsibilities will evolve. New partnerships will be formed. Tired traditions will be questioned. Our priorities will be adjusted. New skills will be built. New ideas will be heard. New hires will be made. Processes will be simplified. And if you want to thrive at Microsoft and make a world impact, you and your team must add numerous more changes to this list that you will be enthusiastic about driving.

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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.

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At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

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There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.

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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.

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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.

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Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

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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.

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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.

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I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

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I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.

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We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

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From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.

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