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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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