Quotes by Carol Bartz

About Carol Bartz:

Carol Ann Bartz is an American business executive, the former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk.
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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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

Author Bio

  • NameCarol Bartz
  • DescriptionAmerican businesswoman
  • BornAugust 29, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionManager; Chief Executive Officer