Meg Whitman Quotes

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

I'm running a business.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

I had a very long and successful career as an entrepreneur, focused on the needs of small to midsize businesses.

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I have always been a business person.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.