Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorinais an American businessperson and political candidate. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as the Chief Executive Officerof Hewlett-Packard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 September 1954
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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It allows us to fix our PC business, ... If I didn't care about laying off people I could just shut it down. If I shut it down, I'd lay off a lot more than 15,000 people across two companies over several years.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.
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Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement...Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.
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We turned in very strong performance in our UNIX business. We now have a superb product lineup with more in the pipeline.
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These results demonstrate that we are winning and growing across the portfolio in an intensely competitive market,
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We had planned for single-digit growth in our PC business in the U.S.; we had planned for that in U.S. retail, ... Nevertheless, we did indicate that we saw less growth than anticipated even with that single-digit forecast. It is a relatively small part of our portfolio and it does not change our forecast.
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We do not see any meaningful improvement in IT spending, and we are not counting on a strong holiday buying season, ... We still have a lot of work to do. But the results today validate and demonstrate our progress towards our goals of meeting and exceeding all of our integration targets.
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The third quarter is always tough, but we still should have done better,
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Technology is changing so fast, that to bet a business on a proprietary technology, or on a single technology, commits an IT environment to becoming a legacy environment.
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Completion of the FTC review marks a major milestone in the approval process, and we are now focused on winning the shareowner vote,
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Today's results demonstrate the tremendous progress we're making in all of our businesses around the world.
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We're clearly not seeing any recovery in 2001, and I think we're talking a recovery in the second half of 2002, ... And I think the recovery will be limited.