Zitate und Sprüche von Meg Whitman

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

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

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.

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.

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.

Great companies are built on great products.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest - my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

I love Sacramento. I consider this home.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.

Around 1988 in Sacramento, it was a time of a real good growth spurt. I mean, people were buying houses, and new developments were coming about.

Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.

A student from the University of Washington has sold his soul on eBay for $400. He's a law student, so he probably doesn't need it.

Come on. Let’s see how much we’re going for on eBay.

Raj: "Hey, look, I found an iPod!"
Howard: "Smashed beyond repair - what are you going to do with it?"
Raj: "What else? Sell it on ebay as 'slightly used'."

Mr. President, Ukraine did not "start" this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.