Meg Whitman Quotes

• You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Social, Commerce, Community

• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Government

• You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Economy, Job

  Tags in Issue, California, Think

• You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Government, Think, Like, Principles

• You can’t stand for too many things. You can’t use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Education, Job

  Tags in Promise

• When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• What’s sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fundamentals, Good, Public

• Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what’s happened I think we’re now in the dream-breaking business.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business, Dream

  Tags in California, Happened

• We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cake, Just

• We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, ‘You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we’re going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.’ So I’ll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business, Job

  Tags in California

• Sometimes it’s a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users’ sentiments.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Like, Sometimes, Little

• Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we’ve got to streamline regulation so it’s easy, not hard, to do business.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business

  Tags in California, Regulation

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Produce, California, Agriculture, Good

• My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business, Future

  Tags in Majority, Think

• Most of us can’t even begin to imagine.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagine

• It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Internet, Communication

• I want to work with the teachers’ union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It’s not acceptable.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Children, Work

  Tags in Generation, California, Want, Teachers

• I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in California, Want, Think, Time

• I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we’ve got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business, Technology

  Tags in California, World, Think, Place

• I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who’s managed a budget, who’s led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization, Think, Time

Meg Whitman (30)

Birth:	4th August, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businesswoman, Chief Executive Officer, Politician

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