Meg Whitman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”
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“Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly,”
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“Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.”
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“A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.”
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“Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's a dumb idea... no one has done that before... girls don't do that.' My mom gave me that advice in 1973. And it allowed me to never worry about what others were saying about my career direction.”
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“We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.”
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“When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.”
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“Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.”
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“If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to be more effective.”
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“And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.”
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“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..”
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“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.”
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“Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.”
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“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.”
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