Nadella Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Satya Nadella

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. — Satya Nadella

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula. — Satya Nadella

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers. — Satya Nadella

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

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it. — Satya Nadella

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

Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side. — Satya Nadella

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? — Satya Nadella

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

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund. — Satya Nadella

In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a way that I don't think would have been possible for me to do even if I'd seen it that way, to really talk about this mobile-first, cloud-first world. — Steve Ballmer

If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask. — Satya Nadella

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

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy. — Satya Nadella

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive. — Satya Nadella

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me. — Satya Nadella

There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance? — Satya Nadella

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

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. — Satya Nadella

I will always be a Hyderabadi. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future. — Satya Nadella

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career. — Satya Nadella

This is a software-powered world. — Satya Nadella

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft. — Satya Nadella

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

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. — Satya Nadella

I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world. — Satya Nadella

The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

Culture change means we will do things differently. — Satya Nadella

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity. — Satya Nadella

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences. — Satya Nadella

There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself. — Satya Nadella

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all. — Satya Nadella

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

Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation. — Satya Nadella

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers. — Satya Nadella

At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people. — Satya Nadella

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. — Satya Nadella

I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good. — Steve Ballmer

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office. — Satya Nadella

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

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing. — Satya Nadella

A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One. — Satya Nadella

Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. — Satya Nadella

We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output. — Satya Nadella

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment ... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.' — Satya Nadella

It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. — Satya Nadella

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture. — Satya Nadella

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. — Satya Nadella

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines. — Satya Nadella

Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved. — Satya Nadella

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here. — Satya Nadella

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

Competition is not going to kill us. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

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

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives. — Satya Nadella

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

We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings. — Satya Nadella

I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise. — Satya Nadella

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that's what really gets me going. — Satya Nadella

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

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

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

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. — Satya Nadella

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games. — Satya Nadella

You're trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it's that compression. The best code is poetry. — Satya Nadella

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. — Satya Nadella

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences. — Satya Nadella

To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play. — Satya Nadella

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