Satya Nadella Quotes
13 quotes from Satya Nadella — CEO of Microsoft since 2014..
“This is a software-powered world.”
“Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.”
“Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.”
“You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes you're not, but it's the average that counts.”
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”
“Envy is negative and outer-directed, not driven from within, and so I knew that it wouldn't carry us very far down the path to true renewal.”
“Yeah, it's too late to change. You are who you are.”
“If you take two kids at school, one of them has more innate capability but is a know-it-all. The other person has less innate capability but is a learn-it-all. The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all.”
“When the paradigm shifts, do you have something to contribute? Because there is no God-given right to exist if you don't have anything relevant.”
“Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation. 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.”
“It's fascinating how we always think that burning ambition early on is what drives you. I think what I had, though, was some curiosity, and that's what sustained me in the long run.”
“Empathy makes you a better innovator. If I look at the most successful products we have created, it comes with that ability to meet the unmet, unarticulated needs of customers.”
“We were a tools company first. Bill built the basic interpreter for the Altair. And I said, god, there's more need for tools and platforms in 2014, 2023. That's who we are, right at the core, we build tech so that others can build more tech.”
