Words matter. These are the best Carol Bartz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don’t want to talk about banks 12 times a year.
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.
I didn’t have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
Back when ‘social’ had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
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 most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they’re the most secretive.
I always do my firing in the morning because that’s when I’m fresh.
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.
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
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.
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
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.
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
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.
