Meg Whitman Business Quotations

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..

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.

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.

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: 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.

We are extremely pleased with the strength of our business and with the tremendous momentum we have going into the new year,

Our fourth-quarter results capped off an outstanding year. We have excellent momentum going into 2002 and feel confident with our long-term strategy, ongoing execution and the inherent strength of our business mode.

We feel we are at just the beginning of what could be an enormous business for us,

We saw very strong growth across every part of our business in Q3.

By combining the two leading e-commerce franchises we will create an extraordinarily powerful environment for business on the internet.

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.

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.

The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?