Quotes from Satya Nadella

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

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

I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

Competition is not going to kill us.

India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

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.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

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

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.