Satya Nadella

“We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience.”

“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.”

“When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.”

“The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.”

“As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.”

“Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.”

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

“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.”

“If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.”

“I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.”

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

“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.”

“You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing.”

“I will always be a Hyderabadi.”

“The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.”

“What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.”

“Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.”