A biography for Satya Nadellahasn’t been written yet.
“Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.”
“We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.”
“We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.”
“We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.”
“It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.”
“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.”
“Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.”
“The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes.”
“I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.”
“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.”
“What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.”
“We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.”
“What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.”
“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.”
“Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.”
“At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.”