Meg Whitman Quotes
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.
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Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.
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There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.
