Q: Good afternoon Mrs. Carly Fiorina. I have a dream to be a CEO like you, that's why I came here today. Now, I have two questions. First, it is said said that the IT industry is a world for men. As a woman in the industry, whats your feeling with working with so many men? We have the same problems here in Tsing Hua University. You can find more boys than girls. HP now is a very success company in the world. You made it more successful that ever before. Do you have a plan to start your own company? If so, would it be in the IT industry or will it produce something else?
A: In answer to your question to what will I do next? Consist with to my answer with the young man just a moment ago... I don't know. And it doesn't worry me that I don't know. What I know right now is that I have a wonderful privilege to lead this great company. And I know as well that I have a lot of work left to do here. What comes next will revel itself in time. I don't need to worry about that right now. We're not done by a long shot, we have a lot left to do. I have no idea if I would start my own company, or if it would be in IT.
With regards to your questions, being in a man's world. That isn't how you asked it, but that is how you meant it. Actually I am very delighted to see so many young women here today. It is true that there are still mostly meetings that I go to where I am the only one. So I learned to love men and get along with men very well, but one thing I know. Only you know inside, what you are capable of. I said in my speech, "know your own power, know your own potential, and do not let anyone take that away from you." That is not arrogance. It is not hubris, it is not pride. But you cannot unlock the potential in other, unless you know the potential and power in yourself.
I think leadership and success take the right balance between confidence, and humility. The confidence to know you can make a difference, the confidence to know you can make a contribution, the confidence to know that you have capability an power can and the humility to know that you can't do it all by yourself, you don't know every answer and you do need help. Don't let anyone tell you you cannot do something. Anyone can do something if they really want to do it. And so if someone says you can't do it, because you're a woman, because you don't have the right something. If someone says you can't do it - let that be their problem, not yours. Don't take it inside, you know what you can do. Do what you want to do.
Q: Thank you. My question is about my problem. I am not very interested in my major. I will have more problems if I stay in my major. But to make a change is very difficult. It is very difficult to give up what we have now, I have studied in my major for more than two years. And my parents don't want me to quit. So what I learned from your speech that you have changed your major 2 twice and you have studied 3 majors. So would you give me the suggestion that I should quit? I want to listen to your opinion.
A: Do you mean that so when you go home and tell your mother and father you changed majors you can say that Carly Fiorina told me to?
My father wanted me to go to law school. You know what I would really say to you, and I would say it to all of you. I would say it to any one. Find what you love. Find what you love. If you do not have interest and excitement and passion for what you are doing, you cannot be successful. Success takes commitment, commitment takes devotion, devotion takes passion.
And how terrible, I thought, for me, it would be to lead a life as a lawyer when I had no passion for it. I cannot tell you what to do. I cannot advise you. All of my life tells me that you should find what you love. Even if that takes a little longer. I hope I don't get you into trouble.
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