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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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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• The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• NetSuite was a really good company.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.

  

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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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• I think, in general, data protection really matters.

  

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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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• 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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• Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

  

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• Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers.

  

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