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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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.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

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.

Carol Bartz

Author Bio

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