Carol Bartz Quotes

I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.

I'm always focused and enjoying the journey because this life is meant for savoring every goal reached and striving for more.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

I've done well for myself.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

I want to do really good things with my life.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

America loves to watch people growing and getting better.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.