Quotes from Satya Nadella

Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let's figure out how to make that great. And then let's go figure out monetization.

At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.

Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.

Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.

We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.

What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.

When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.

The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.

It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.