Meg Whitman

Margaret C. Whitman (born August 4, 1956) became the President and CEO of Hewlett Packard in September 2011. She was President and CEO of the online marketplace eBay from 1998 to 2007.

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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.
  • The Economist, 2nd October 2010, p.78
• A monkey could drive this train.
  • Said about running eBay in its early days, quoted in the New York Times, "EBay Bids on a New Path to Growth", February 6, 2011

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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”

“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.”

“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.”

“Most of us can't even begin to imagine.”