Satya Nadella Quotes

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

Satya Nadella

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Same
  • Situation
  • Turn

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Technology

• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Second Chance

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Crisis

• Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • See
  • Nobody
  • Vine

• Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Science

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Family
  • Human

• April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Advice
  • Tax
  • April

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Time
  • Read
  • Newsweek

• As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Curiosity
  • Subjects
  • Surprised

• You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

  

  Stanley Kirk Burrell

• Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Personality
  • Print

• I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Film
  • Standing
  • Representing

• For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • People
  • Excel