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All Quotes by author - Aneel Bhusri
" 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. "
Worry
Happy
Great
" 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. "
Day
You
Thought
" 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. "
Problems
Help
Great
" 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. "
Time
See
Think
" Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers. "
Care
Employees
Great
" If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away. "
Laptop
Throw
Away
" 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. "
Early
Mentor
Leader
" If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that - and in turn, they also want that same type of success. "
Attention
People
You
" If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No. "
Cloud
Different
Five
" I liked business. I found it fascinating. "
Liked
Found
Fascinating
" 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. "
Going
Need
Opportunities
" NetSuite was a really good company. "
Good Company
Good
Company
" Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction. "
High
Satisfaction
Customer
" 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. "
Do The Right Thing
City
You
" Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't. "
Out
Business
Go
" The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done. "
Work
Best
Decisions
" 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. "
Decisions
Business
Run
" There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud. "
Moving
Cloud
Finance
" We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run. "
Us
Run
Employees
" We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook. "
Like
Looking
Time
" We work as a team, and that is a huge part of why we have been successful; we run fast as a team. "
Team
Work
Run
" What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.' "
Way
Hope
Run
" 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. "
Management
Performance
System
" When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy. "
Bureaucracy
You
Up
" 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. "
Perfect
Beginning
Cloud
" You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve. "
See
Easy
Great
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