I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management. Carol Bartz More Quotes by Carol Bartz More Quotes From Carol Bartz I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor. Carol Bartz balls balance perfection You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor. Carol Bartz balance able needs If you think you can't, you're right. Carol Bartz smart positive inspirational If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think. Carol Bartz long people thinking If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple. Carol Bartz ipads apples running It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what. Carol Bartz smart passion years 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 apples jobs years I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board. Carol Bartz chairman boards phones I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic. Carol Bartz great think work people 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 job good think you 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 family mother love death It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are. Carol Bartz you change path culture I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought. Carol Bartz i-am small never thought I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year. Carol Bartz talk year money want 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. Carol Bartz bad understand always trouble 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. Carol Bartz chicken lady me funny Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product. Carol Bartz say back you finance Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content. Carol Bartz content very company strong The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity. Carol Bartz crawl web fact you Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere. Carol Bartz facebook how just people
