I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

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.

The more you live it, the more sustainable your business approach becomes.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

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

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

Competition is not going to kill us.

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.

My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.

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

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.

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play.

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

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.

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.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

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

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

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

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

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.

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

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

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.

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

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

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

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.

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

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

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

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

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.

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.

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.

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.

India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone.

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.

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.