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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.

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.
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Anyone Else Experience Finish Life Many Overall Shape Think
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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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.
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This is a software-powered world.
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Power Software World
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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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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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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Computing Light Matter Physical Speed Still
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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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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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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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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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
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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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Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
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The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
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