Meg Whitman Quotes

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of a good government.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

I have decided to endorse Governor John Kasich for president because he is a leader who has a proven record of delivering results. John turned Ohio around at a tough time, and I believe he can do the same for our country.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles - the elected official, the campaign manager - I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.

I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading large organizations of people is something that is perpetually challenging and the topic on which I am constantly looking for good advice.