- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.
- Bureaucracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of fighters underestimate me. And what do you know? They end up being on the canvas.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020