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The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’

Satya Nadella

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
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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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Be passionate and bold.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
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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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You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes your not, but it’s the average that counts.
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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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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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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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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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What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
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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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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 marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.
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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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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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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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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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