Carly Fiorina Quotes on Business & Commerce (12 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Revolution Health Group is driven by an exceptional vision informed by the experience of world-class entrepreneurs, business innovators and investors, ... I'm excited to join the board.

We turned in very strong performance in our UNIX business. We now have a superb product lineup with more in the pipeline.

With the Taiwan disruption, which affects, most especially, our PC business, we don't think we'll achieve the high end of the sales range and are more likely to come in closer to the low end,

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.