Meg Whitman quotes

Meg Whitman is an American businesswoman known for her leadership roles at major corporations such as eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Her strategic decisions have shaped the growth of these companies and made her one of the most influential women in business. She continues to be active in both the technology and political sectors. Here are 32 of her quotes:

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

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A monkey could drive this train.

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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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Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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