Carol Bartz Quotations

We're so overburdened with all the bullshit in the system.

Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

If you think you can't, you're right.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.

My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.

My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.

(Bass) has a deep knowledge of the industry and the business as well as a keen understanding of our customers and the demands they face every day.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.

I think we (will) have a big run on both sides for a long time. Considering the fact that ultimately the majority of our base should move to 3D, and we are only 10 percent there, that is a huge opportunity.

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.

We are always on the hunt for some really good people with some good ideas, ... There will be some layoffs because there are some synergies and there will be people doing the same thing.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.

I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

In light of our financial results, the actions taken today, while painful, are necessary to recalibrate the business and move forward with our strategic direction,

I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.

If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter.

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.

Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.

The difficult economic climate affected our business more than we anticipated late in our April quarter, ... Our business in Asia fell below our expectations and Discreet continued to experience selling pressure. Despite the shortfall, we remain confident in our strategy to help customers gain greater value from digital design data and look forward to providing more details on our results call.