39 Quotes By 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 on art

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
Carly Fiorina on business

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 on business

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
Carly Fiorina on business

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
Carly Fiorina on business

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
Carly Fiorina on business

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
Carly Fiorina on business

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina on change

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 on courage

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
Carly Fiorina on experience

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
Carly Fiorina on family

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 on future

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
Carly Fiorina on future

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 on government

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 on government

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 on government

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 on government

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina on government

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
Carly Fiorina on leadership

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Carly Fiorina on marriage