Meg Whitman Quotes

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

Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly.

To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

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

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

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

If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to be more effective.

A monkey could drive this train.

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.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

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

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

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.

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

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.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake