Top 29 Quotes by Carol Bartz

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

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

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

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

I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.