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 More Quotes by Satya Nadella More Quotes From Satya Nadella Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. Satya Nadella keep-learningpassionateuseful-things 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 best-workbelievepeople Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation. Satya Nadella innovationtraditiondoe Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. Satya Nadella ambitiondesireculture You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts. Satya Nadella successfulaverageinspirational The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?' Satya Nadella lastswayyears 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 believebookthinking Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance. Satya Nadella microsoftperseverancethree 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. Satya Nadella passionatelastskeys If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity. Satya Nadella opportunityculture Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. Satya Nadella microsoftcloudsworld The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly. Satya Nadella opportunityjobsmoving What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology. Satya Nadella technology Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft. Satya Nadella empoweringcreationachieve Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist? Satya Nadella technology I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career. Satya Nadella teamcareersthinking One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries. Satya Nadella boundaries I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going. Satya Nadella people 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 karmaresponsibilitythinking 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 coupleessencetrying
