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This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

Satya Nadella

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.
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That means at times we’ll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.
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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
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Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there’s someone new who’s born with a new idea.
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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.’
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You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes your not, but it’s the average that counts.
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This is a software-powered world.
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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example — it is the world’s best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem.
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The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
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One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.
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I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
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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?
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This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

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This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

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