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.

— Satya Nadella

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

— 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 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

— Satya Nadella