Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
Carly Fiorina
The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
Carly Fiorina
When you challenge other people’s ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina
Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
Carly Fiorina
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
Carly Fiorina
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
Carly Fiorina
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
Russia – having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it’s pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he’s been very good at acquiring it – political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
Carly Fiorina
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
Carly Fiorina
Look, I’m a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can’t get insurance.
Carly Fiorina
Look, I’m a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can’t get insurance.
Carly Fiorina
You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
Carly Fiorina
The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
Carly Fiorina
I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It’s not extreme; it’s common sense. We need to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
Carly Fiorina
To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
The truth is, Hillary Clinton’s ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you’ve got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
Carly Fiorina
I don’t take on a fight just for a fight. I don’t tilt at windmills.
Carly Fiorina
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that’s just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina
Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
Carly Fiorina
Every job is important because each one represents an American’s livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
Carly Fiorina
The truth is in California you can’t build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
Carly Fiorina
A leader’s most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
Carly Fiorina
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
Carly Fiorina
You know, the truth is this: it is a leader’s job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
Carly Fiorina
I’m happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.
Carly Fiorina
People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Carly Fiorina
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
Carly Fiorina
I am a conservative and proud of it.
Carly Fiorina
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
Carly Fiorina
If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
Carly Fiorina
I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I’ve been competing with men my whole life.
Carly Fiorina
I’m a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
Carly Fiorina
Most of the media… is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
Carly Fiorina
This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
Carly Fiorina
Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
Carly Fiorina
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
Carly Fiorina
Well, you know, I – again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government’s priorities. The federal government’s top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
Carly Fiorina
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it’s quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor’s seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
Carly Fiorina
When our most important issue is the debt that we’re piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it’s pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
Carly Fiorina
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
Carly Fiorina
The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don’t know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
Carly Fiorina
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.
Carly Fiorina
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
Carly Fiorina
Don’t think of yourself as a woman in business.
Carly Fiorina
I’ve never thought in terms of ‘men do this’ and ‘women do that.’
Carly Fiorina
Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, ‘No way.’
Carly Fiorina
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It’s harder when everybody is against you.
Carly Fiorina
I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina
There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.
Carly Fiorina