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29 quotes by Carol Bartz

Carol Ann Bartz (born August 28, 1948) 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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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.... →

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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?... →

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When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't... →

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

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