Carol Bartz
Carol Bartz
Carol Ann Bartz is an American business executive, the former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational positive smart
If you think you can't, you're right.
balance needs able
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.
thinking long people
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
perfection balance balls
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.
yahoo
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
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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.
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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.
morning
I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.
good managing
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.
fierce global good google map worth
Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.
along annual everybody felt honest positive process review
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.
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The difficult economic climate affected our business more than we anticipated late in our April quarter, ... Our business in Asia fell below our expectations and Discreet continued to experience selling pressure. Despite the shortfall, we remain confident in our strategy to help customers gain greater value from digital design data and look forward to providing more details on our results call.