Carly Fiorina Quotes (86 Quotes)

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.

On a pure technology basis, we are leapfrogging our competition in terms of processing performance and compute power, both in terms of the number of CPUs customers can order as well as in the performance of the processors themselves,

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.

The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome a very difficult economic environment worldwide an industry undergoing a rapid transformation intense competition and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win.

We're enabling Nokia phones to connect to printers and print anything that lives on the Web -- everything from basketball game scores to e-mail messages,

This announcement marks a defining moment in the evolution of HP's imaging and printing business,

This board has always operated on the important governance principles of independence, deliberation and respect for a diversity of views, ... The board recognizes the importance of shareowner voices. We will reach out to shareowners, including our institu

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.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford, she told the 2001 graduation ceremony. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

The economy did a little bit of a stutter step, and that is why we did not see the normal acceleration in demand towards the end of the quarter,

Even when it wasn't easy or convenient, both my mother and father were ultimately true to themselves.... Their definition of greatness was about greatness of character.

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.

We are gratified that HP shareowners recognize the compelling strategic and economic benefits of the merger and that a decisive majority of shares not affiliated with the Hewlett and Packard families and foundations appear to have been voted in favor of this transaction,

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

When we issued our previous second fiscal quarter guidance, we had limited visibility into the extent of the U.S. consumer and commercial downturn, its potential impact on other regions and the continuation of adverse currency effects, ... At this time, it is quite clear that the U.S. downturn in the consumer market is now spreading to other regions, notably Europe.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

had issues with her management style, which was different from his.

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

This is a decisive move that accelerates our strategy and positions us to win by offering even greater value to our customers and partners. In addition to the clear strategic benefits of combining two highly complementary organizations and product families, we can create substantial shareowner value through significant cost-structure improvements and access to new growth opportunities.

The goal is to transform data into information, and information into insight

In UNIX systems, we posted really excellent growth in the low-end, the sweet spot of the dot. com market. We've begun to turn things around in our server business, and new products are around the corner. We're seeing excellent growth in the Internet space, with tremendous customer acceptance of the L-Class, which spans the entry level and the mid-range.

Results were driven by excellent execution in imaging and printing and good performance in services, ... While overall computing systems results remain weak, we saw improvement in certain segments, including storage and PCs.

What's particularly gratifying to me is that we delivered these results at the same time we are reinventing the company.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Ask yourself why am I hearing this now Why didn't they put their case in the proxy statement

more choice and lower cost.

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.

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.

The Internet hasn't lived up to its promises, and for too many people it is too foreign, distant, cold and threatening. The challenge for the Internet as we enter the new millennium is to become intimate, friendly, pervasive, personal.

We have looked very carefully at antitrust aspects of this. We're comfortable we can reach an agreement in this kind of time frame.

We cannot say every step has been perfect, but we can say with confidence today we are where we intended to be.

It doesn't make sense to get out of that business. It's an important part of the solutions bundle. But don't think we didn't look at it (getting out of PC sales) carefully. We did.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

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.

The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

There is one point I agree with Walter Hewlett on, ... This is not a company in crisis.

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.

Although we are satisfied with our performance in personal systems, imaging and printing, software, and services, these solid results were overshadowed by unacceptable execution in enterprise servers and storage. We therefore are making immediate management changes. We are also accelerating our margin improvement plans in this business.

This was a great quarter. By any measure, we hit our stride and demonstrated what the merger was all about.

Am I disappointed in his behavior and his decision Absolutely, ... I can neither justify nor explain his decision.

This continues to be a challenging and somewhat unpredictable environment, ... Given our miss, we think it's prudent to be somewhat cautious.

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.

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

We are ... looking at, at this point, flat revenue growth in the third quarter,

This is not a company stuck. This is a company that leads in virtually every category in which we compete.

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.

That is, units that are very small in footprint that are lower cost than traditional photo finishing. Therefore, they can be made available to consumers in a whole host of outlets all around the world, opening up some new and non-traditional ways of making the joys of digital imaging available to consumer all around the world.

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 instead of trying something new, the bull returns to what is familiar. His comfort zone.