Quotes from Satya Nadella

One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

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.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.

I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.

I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.