Aneel Bhusri

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

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.

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

Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

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.

There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.

I would be amazed if Oracle does not buy NetSuite.

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.

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.'

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.

Success begets success in terms of customer deployments and having truly happy customers.

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.

I think the bring-your-own-device is the best thing that ever happened to CIOs. Now employees are paying for their own devices.

I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.

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

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

I think, in general, data protection really matters.

There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.

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