Aneel Bhusri

“There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.”

“I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and he didn't really rely on venture capital, but I remember the first time I met him and got to talk about Salesforce when they were still private. I thought, 'Damn, that is going to be a huge company.'”

“I liked business. I found it fascinating.”

“All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.”

“I think the bring-your-own-device is the best thing that ever happened to CIOs. Now employees are paying for their own devices.”

“The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.”

“When we started Workday, we were originally very focused on the core HR system. Then we added payroll, and then we got into performance management.”

“You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.”

“I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.”

“If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.”

“I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.”

“We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.”

“The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.”

“In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.”

“San Francisco is a wonderful city, but you do have housing issues. If tech companies don't do the right thing, they can dislocate a lot of what makes San Francisco special. At Workday, we want to be on the right side of that.”

“Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers.”

“There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.”

“What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.”

“Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.”

“The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad.”