Satya Nadella

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

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 thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

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.

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

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 asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.

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

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.

We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.

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.

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

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

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

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