Satya Nadella Quotes

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational support for collaboration and innovation.

The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.