Meg Whitman Quotes

• I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it’ll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business, Technology

  Tags in Organization

• I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Technology

• I answer that question by saying: ‘Why Meg Whitman’ which is: I’m not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business

  Tags in California, Politician, Career

• Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Guess, Change

• For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal – the wallet on eBay.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Network, Idea

• Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communication, Community

• Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Business, Economy

  Tags in Government, Happen

• Because if you don’t have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you’re not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in America, Country, Education, Work

• And I want to be able to – you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Job

  Tags in California, Want

• Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

  Meg Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Underlie, Net, Fundamentals, Encouraged, Actually, Spend, Variety, How, Am, Usage, Good, Growth, Things, Time, Much, Really, Look

Meg Whitman (30)

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

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