Jerry Yang Quotations

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

We are all here in China that represents quite a lot of opportunities, not only on the business side, but also on the social side,

We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws,

We did not know what they wanted information for,

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Now we're seeing services and applications. This has been one of the promises the Internet has offered for a long time -- the consumer can really be the programmer.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

We look at our users' interests, without our users we don't have business.

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

Terry has said he's been very clear about the fact that the habits and the desires of the consumer are the common theme between his last career and his current career.

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

We have always had a long-term commitment to China and even more so to the development of its Internet industry, We're confident that Yahoo! is putting its resources behind the right management team, which operates according to similar values as we do, and shares the same vision for providing the most essential and relevant services to consumers and businesses.

To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law. We don't know what they want that information for, we're not told what they look for. If they give us the proper documentation and court orders, we give them things that satisfy both our privacy policy and the local rules.

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

We think small business in the US and other markets are very fragmented and a tremendous opportunity for a quasi-automated business model like we have to take advantage of.

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.

People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

The relevance of search is still the Holy Grail for any search application,

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

It's a huge opportunity for Yahoo to be closer to our user base without them having to fire up a browser.

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

The biggest struggle was probably giving up something that we'd been doing for five or six years, doing our Ph.D.s and almost being there.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

I have never seen so many people with cameras. It is kind of scary.

If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.

If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.

I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.

Internally we say to people (employees of Yahoo!), 'you always have other options,'

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

I can't clearly comment on that ..., ... I Êwould say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.

I can't clearly comment on that ..., ... I  would say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.

I don't like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that's what we need to do.

I do not like the outcome of what happens with these things. But we have to follow the law.

This has huge potential because it does combine the user-participation model with the algorithm. It will take multiple years to play out.

The hopes on e-commerce and communications going forward is what we're trying to capitalize on.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

The challenge for us is to build partnerships over time that will realize the benefits others are gaining through mergers and acquisitions.

The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.