Carly Fiorina Quotes

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Follow your own star!

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.