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“I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.”
“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?”
“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.”
“You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.”
“Culture change means we will do things differently.”
“I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.”
“The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.”
“In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.”
“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.”
“LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.”
“Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.”
“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.”
“Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.”
“From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.”
“I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in 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 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.”
“Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.”
“I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.”
“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.”