Meg Whitman Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

  Meg Whitman

  Communication, Heart, Community

  "EBay to buy Internet telephone company Skype / $2.6 billion deal will give online auction sellers, buyers another way to communicate" by September 13, 2005, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 2005.

• Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control.
  
  So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Thinking, Command And Control

• eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: "People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community."

  Meg Whitman

  Friendship, Ebay, Two

  "Q&A: A Talk with Meg Whitman". Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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