Aneel Bhusri

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

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.

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.

Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

NetSuite was a really good company.

I liked business. I found it fascinating.

Every employee at Workday thinks about how they are going to help customers be successful. It is a simple formula, but a lot of companies go out, and they don't listen to their customers; they don't try to solve hard problems, making it tougher for themselves to create a great business.

You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.

Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.

To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.

Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.

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