128 Quotes by Meg Whitman

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake

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.

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

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

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

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..

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

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