Aneel Bhusri

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.' ”

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

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. ”