"I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board"

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Source : "I applaud Carol Bartz's honesty" by Alexander Chancellor, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

Carol Bartz

#Phones Quotes #Boards Quotes

“The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.”
“The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.”
“He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.”
“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”
“Tis the gift to be gentle, â€™tis the gift to be fair, â€™Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.”
“Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
“I do a lot of screen re-writing.”
“You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best.Â You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.”

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