"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
You have to understand "LIFE", AZJim. Failure is a part of success. It often takes many failures to reach success. Failure doesn't necessarily have to define you unless you let it. It often makes you stronger, wiser, and more able. I won't waste my time on discussing Trump because I don't see him lasting long at the top of the polls due to his podium deliveries. And I don't know much about Fiorina but hope to with the upcoming debate wednesday night. Meanwhile, here she explains her time with Hewlett-Packard much more factually and accurately than you have:
Carly Fiorina on Hewlett Packard questions:
http://news.yahoo.com/carly-fiorina-interview-with-katie-couric-200949497.html
I'll just have to understand that you are far better able to assess these things than I. I just thought that I had a basic understanding of both candidates from independent sources here and there and my own observation, but I yield to your apparent superiority on both counts. I imagine those 30,000 employees laid off by Fiorina are all doing well, and I understand HP is limping back from it's "improvements" made by Fiorina and almost going under as a result. But I am sure, her own statement is clear repudiation of all that. Here's some more "ignorant" opinion on her:
President Fiorina? How Carly did at HP
americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/05/04/president-fiorina-how-carly-did-at-hp/
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Carly Fiorina (AP)
Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina threw her name in the 2016 presidential race Monday. She’s not likely, though, to get a ringing endorsement from investors of HP; the company under her got bigger but less healthy.
Fiorina’s roughly six-year tenure as the first female CEO of a company in the Dow Jones industrial average is still one of great contention. “Fiorina was bad. Everyone seems to agree on this now,”
wrote then-technology USA TODAY columnist Keven Maney immediately following her forced ouster Feb. 8, 2005.
Some thought her tenure would be cleared as time passed. But that really hasn’t been the case.
The stock under Fiorina was a disaster — falling 65% from July 19, 1999, to Feb. 8, 2005. It was a tough time for the stock market, too, as the Standard & Poor’s 500 dropped 15% during the same time. But HP’s stock even underperformed the S&P 500 Information Technology Sector index.
Source: S&P Capital IQ
But those investors can be so shallow, right? What about the actual performance of the business? Fiorina didn’t make much progress on the company’s profit, despite making massive bets such as buying computer maker Compaq. The company’s net income under Fiorina didn’t budge during her tenure and even dropped into the red in 2002. HP’s net income was flat during the period, even while reported net income of the S&P 500 rose 70%.
Source: S&P Capital IQ
Fiorina did make the company larger in terms of revenue. The company’s total revenue jumped, largely due to massive acquisitions like Compaq.
Source: S&P Capital IQ
But that came by piling on massive amounts of debt, too.
Chart source; S&P Capital IQ
That’s right. She created a larger company — with more debt. Wonder how that would work in government?
Voters may be willing to give Fiorina a try. But investors were harsher — forcing her out of Hewlett-Packard.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale University at the time labeled her “the worst (CEO) because of her ruthless attack on the essence of this great company,” in USA TODAY. He added: “She destroyed half the wealth of her investors and yet still earned almost $100 million in total payments for this destructive reign of terror.”
