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.

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.