Carly Fiorina Quotes

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

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

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.

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

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.

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.

I understand how the economy actually works.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

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

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

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.

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.

I don’t give up on commitments until what I’ve been asked to do is clearly finished.

We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

You don’t create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn’t think my vote mattered because I didn’t have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

Well, I’ve been a Republican for all of my voting life.

My goodness, my hair’s been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

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

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.

I’ve traveled around the world.

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.

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

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won’t be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Well I’m not a novelist. I’ve only written one book and that is a memoir.

What I have said to people is that I’ve lived the American dream, because I have.

That’s the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It’s not just about words as it is in politics.

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

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

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

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

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

The truth is in California you can’t build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

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.

People who don’t fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

Women are not all single-issue voters.

There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.

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

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.

I have very eclectic tastes.

I think when you’ve been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

You know, I’m very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I’ve received.

I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

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.

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?

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It’s harder when everybody is against you.

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

I don’t take on a fight just for a fight. I don’t tilt at windmills.

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.

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.

Don’t think of yourself as a woman in business.

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.

Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party’s frontrunner.

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

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

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.

I didn’t get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race … maybe it’s because I hadn’t given money to the foundation or donated to his wife’s senate race.

When men cut jobs, they’re seen as decisive. When women do, they’re vindictive.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars’ worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars’ worth of expenses.

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.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

It’s the federal government’s job to secure the border.

I’m a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.