I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
SATYA NADELLAYou’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.
More Satya Nadella Quotes
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Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work.
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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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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first 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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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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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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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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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.
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This is a software-powered world.
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I marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.
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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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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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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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