Carly Fiorina Quotes

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

I'm just always trying to be positive. Negative things happen to everybody. Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

Failure makes me work even harder.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.