Top 70 Satya Nadella Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “This is a software-powered world.”

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2. “Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.”

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3. “Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.”

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4. “You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes your not, but it’s the average that counts.”

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

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6. “Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. 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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7. “Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.”

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8. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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9. “Be passionate and bold. 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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10. “Consistency over time is trust.”

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11. “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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12. “But as management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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13. “I marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.”

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14. “Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.”

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15. “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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16. “Every person, organization, and even society reaches a point at which they owe it to themselves to hit refresh – to reenergize, renew, reframe, and rethink their purpose.”

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17. “The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.”

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18. “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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19. “Consistency better than perfection!”

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20. “Listening was the most important thing I accomplished each day because it would build the foundation of my leadership for years to come.”

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21. “In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.”

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22. “The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “We needed to build deeper empathy for our customers and their unarticulated and unmet needs. It was time to hit refresh.”

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26. “After all, our products may come and go, but our values are timeless.”

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27. “I must work hard – not to climb the ladder, but to do important work.”

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28. “The key to the culture change was individual empowerment.”

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29. “Passion, toil, and training can help you to soar.”

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30. “Finally, trust is the foundation upon which everything we do is built. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in security and compliance that set the standard for enterprises.”

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31. “So long as you enjoy it, do it mindfully and well, and have an honest purpose behind it, life won’t fail you.”

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32. “Innovation was being replaced by bureaucracy. Teamwork was being replaced by internal politics. We were falling behind.”

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33. “I told them that we spend far too much time at work for it not to have deep meaning.”

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34. “If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.”

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35. “Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices. One thing I had learned from my dad’s experience as a senior Indian government official was that few tasks are more difficult than building a lasting institution. The choice of leading through consensus versus fiat is a false one. Any institution-building comes from having a clear vision and culture that works to motivate progress both top-down and bottom-up.”

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36. “If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups or downs of life. And only then would you be ready to develop that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything around you.”

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37. “Un personaje brillante que no pone primero al equipo puede destruirlo por completo.”

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38. “If we can connect what we stand for as individuals with what this company is capable of, there is very little we can’t accomplish.”

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39. “I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned that only through living life’s ups and downs can you develop empathy; that in order not to suffer, or at least not to suffer so much, one must become comfortable with impermanence.”

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40. “Learning to fly is not pretty but flying is.”

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41. “Despite all this rapid change in the computing industry, we are still at the beginning of the digital revolution.”

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42. “The bigger a company, the more responsibility its leader has to think about the world, its citizens and their long term opportunities.”

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43. “First, we needed to obsess about our customers. At the core of our business must be the curiosity and desire to meet a customer’s unarticulated and unmet needs with great technology.”

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44. “Trust is more than a handshake. It’s the agreement, the bond, between users of digital services and the suppliers of those services that enables us to enjoy, be productive, learn, explore, express, create, be informed.”

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45. “Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices.”

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46. “We live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile. It is you.”

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47. “A leader must see the external opportunities and the internal capability and culture – and all of the connections among them – and respond to them before they become obvious parts of the conventional wisdom.”

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48. “Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place.”

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49. “After all, how we experience the world is through communications and collaboration. If we are interested in machines that work with us, then we can’t ignore the humanistic approach.”

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50. “The next time you are in a meeting, ask the quietest person what they think. Invite everyone into the conversation. If you are on a conference call, ask the people on the phone to share their thoughts first.”

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