Satya Nadella Quotes

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

Even if you play, you know, the best player in the world... you have a chance.

Luck is not a business model.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.