Quotes by Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman

‘Perfect’ is the enemy of ‘good enough’.

Enemy

Good Enough

Perfect

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.

Inspiring

Leader

Organization

A monkey could drive this train.

Monkeys

Train

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

California

Jobs

Want

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.

Country

Education

Fall

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.

Government

Names

Suffering

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

Communication

Community

Heart

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

Careers

Passion

Successful

eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: “People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community.”

Ebay

Friendship

Two

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.

Country

Ebay

Ideas

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Business

Cake

California

Careers

Change

Children

Class

Command And Control

Commerce

Communication

Community

Cost

Country

Differences

Discipline

Dream

Ebay

Education

Enemy

Fall

Fighting

Friendship

Fun

Fundamentals

Girl

Good Enough

Government

Growth

Heart

Icing

Ideas

Imagine

Inspiration

Inspirational

Inspiring

Intellectual

Interesting

Jobs

Kids

Leader

Littles

Long

Matter

Meg

Might

Miles

Mom

Monkeys

Moving

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Quotes by Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman

‘Perfect’ is the enemy of ‘good enough’.

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.

A monkey could drive this train.

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

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.

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

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

eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: “People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community.”

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.

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