Meg Whitman Quotes

I've sat down with Donald Trump in an hour-and-a-half-long meeting with several of the representatives; he was very engaging. He listened to our concerns and our thoughts. I find him very parental.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

I blame all of Egypt, because they do not know how to talk to each other.

The best police officers I know (no matter what their physical stature) have one common trait: their ability to communicate with others. Personally, I do not have the physical stature to dominate those with whom I come in contact, so I have had to develop excellent communication skills that help me talk people into handcuffs.

Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

I get along with people very easily.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.