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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Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.
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We are managing through what is clearly a significant global economic downturn, and our results reflect this tough environment, ... However, we are seeing positive signs that our efforts to transform our business and improve our execution are gaining traction, and we continue to make strategic moves to fuel growth.
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I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.
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To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.
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Nobody needs to worry about my toughness.
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While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision.
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We think the growth guidance we've given you for 2001 is sustainable for the long period given the breadth and depth of our portfolio, ... We have shown where the growth is coming from in terms of our product line, geography and our customers. We think we've made great progress in accelerating production of IT and patent generation equipment and that will bode well for us in 2001.
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We're talking about digital photo finishing mini- and micro-lab units.
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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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Today's results demonstrate the tremendous progress we're making in all of our businesses around the world.
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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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Urgency and speed are...things that everyone agrees"" Hewlett-Packard needs.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.