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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.

Carly Fiorina

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Carly Fiorina
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 6
Businessperson
Executive Officer
Politician
Austin
Texas
Cara Carleton Sneed
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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.
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China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.
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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.
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As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency.
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When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.
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Challenge the mind and capture the heart.
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All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.
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Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.
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I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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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.
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All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?
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National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.
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One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear.
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Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.
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