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" You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve. "
Aneel Bhusri
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We work as a team, and that is a huge part of why we have been successful; we run fast as a team. "
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" 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. "
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" There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud. "
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" 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. "
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" NetSuite was a really good company. "
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" We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook. "
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" 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. "
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" Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers. "
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" If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No. "
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" The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done. "
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" 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. "
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" Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't. "
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" Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction. "
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" If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I liked business. I found it fascinating. "
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" 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. "
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" When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy. "
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