45 Quotes by carol bartz

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

I think we (will) have a big run on both sides for a long time. Considering the fact that ultimately the majority of our base should move to 3D, and we are only 10 percent there, that is a huge opportunity.

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.

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.

We are always on the hunt for some really good people with some good ideas, ... There will be some layoffs because there are some synergies and there will be people doing the same thing.

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

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.

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

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