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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.’

Satya Nadella

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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That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
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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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What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
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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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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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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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Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
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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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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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Be passionate and bold.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
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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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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.
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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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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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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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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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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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The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform.
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The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.
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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.
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The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
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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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Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work.
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