Quotes from Satya Nadella

I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.

I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.

Microsoft loves Linux.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world.

We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

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.

There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.

You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing.

There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.

The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.

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.

We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.