Aneel Bhusri

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. ”

I found a great mentor early on in my career, Dave Duffield - a legendary software innovator, great individual, and a wonderful leader and human being. ”

Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant. ”

People like me, when we're interviewing, we're not going back to our desktop to fill out a recruiting form. If I can quickly submit my evaluation through an iPhone or an iPad, that makes me a lot more productive. ”

If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No. ”

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. ”

There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud. ”

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money. ”

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. ”

I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture. ”