Carol Bartz Quotations

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.

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 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.