The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they’re the most secretive. Carol Bartz Read Quote
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different. Carol Bartz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
