Quotes from Carol Bartz

Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.