7 Quotes & Sayings By Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman is the former CEO of eBay. She was credited with turning around eBay's business, leading it to record revenue and profitability. eBay went public under her leadership in 1998. Prior to that she was president of eBay, where she headed the company through its early years Read more

She is the first woman to lead a U.S. company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Whitman was formerly national chairman of Obama for America, a member of the National Finance Committee for John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, and chair of the board at HealthCare.gov.

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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake Meg Whitman
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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. Meg Whitman
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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. Meg Whitman
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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. Meg Whitman
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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. Meg Whitman
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You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. e Bay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce. Meg Whitman