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.
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.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
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.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
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.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.
Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.
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.
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.
Culture change means we will do things differently.
We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.
Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes.
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.
It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
