Carly Fiorina quotes

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

#Funny #Leadership #Strokes

My job is to continue to work very hard, to make sure the American people understand who I am, what I believe in, what I'll fight for. It's why I have been so accessible to the press.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Jobs #Believe #Fighting

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

#Mother #Courage #Inspiration

I'm tired of women who are conservative like me, being dismissed by others because we don't agree with them. And I think it's time to take that word back for all women, not just for those who believe in the litany of the left.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Believe #Tired #Thinking

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Dressing Up #Shoes #Buying

When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Clueless #Speech #Financial

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Eye #Opportunity #World

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our [the Republicans]party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Party #Tired #Offering

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.
-- Carly Fiorina

#World #Limitless #Resources

Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Islamic #Fighting #Evil

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

#Funny #Art #Listening

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Accomplishment #Accountability #World

All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Government #Support #Waste

I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Real #Thinking #Fixing

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Calling

People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Tired #Views #Class

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Funny Inspirational #Opportunity #Data

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Zero #Moving #Class

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

#Ideas #People #Challenges

We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Powerful #Government #Class

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Essence #Information #Overwhelming

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Problem

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Fighting #Tilt #Windmills

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Thinking #People

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Believe #Race #Powerful Women

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Decision

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Teacher #Children #Choices

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Reality #Perception #Problem

Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles,
-- Carly Fiorina

#Track #Accomplishment #Principles

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

#Believe #Men #I Believe

In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Animal #Able #Return

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Accomplishment #Flying #Clinton

We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it,
-- Carly Fiorina

#Government #Way

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Ambition #Buttons #Red

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Believe #Pay #Should

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Giving Up #Commitment

I certainly support civil unions.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Support #Unions

I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Mean #People #Agree

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Matter #Be Prepared #Organisation

Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Technology #Needs #Agendas

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Strong #Thinking #Dollars

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Thinking #Dollars #Boon

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Thinking #Today #Dots

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Phones #Littles #Nine

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
-- Carly Fiorina

#President #Fiscal Policy #Policy

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Thinking #Ideas #People

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Voting #Republican #Wells

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Men #Thinking #Needs

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Government #Decision #Process

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Jobs #Sometimes #Ceo