Derek Brown Quotations

The online advertising market still seems to be struggling. It's difficult to look at that and see substantial near-term growth.

When you strip out those acquisitions and new partnerships to really get a sense of what the company's core business is doing, it really struggled through the first half of the year.

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

With the increase in guidance and a very strong quarter under its belt, valuation becomes less of an issue, but it doesn't mean that it's off the table. The valuation seems full,

Yahoo! has been a fairly good indicator of how others in the Internet group perform, ... buy.

legitimate chance that Yahoo! could fall short (of estimates) in the (fourth) quarter.

She has a great work ethic and will definitely be a force to be reckoned with for a long time with that discipline and motivation.

Much to everyone's surprise, eBay seems to have had a much better quarter across several crossover categories.

People were looking forward to her coming back. She's a very big part of our team, not just on the floor. She's one of the co-captains and she gets everybody going. Without her, it allowed all of our younger kids to get experience on the front line. So things started to come together after that.

But the sector itself is still a nascent, high-margin, rapidly growing industry. And the indications we've seen are that it hasn't changed much.

He doesn't know us that well. Hopefully he'll be looking beyond us to Tuesday.

He doesn't know us that well (and) hopefully he'll be looking beyond us. Hopefully their ladies will too. Things can happen.

It complements what Yahoo! is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

I think that the performance last quarter was mixed,

I thought we hung in there pretty well. We played with them 25 or 27 minutes, but then we couldn't handle their speed.

I thought we hung in there for a while. The game we're used to is not as quick. It's not as fast up and down the floor. We played for about 25 minutes and then we just couldn't keep up anymore.

I thought we hung in there for awhile and played well in stretches. On our level mainly it's not as quick, not as fast up and down the floor.

I think we hung in there for a while. They played well in stretches. We played for about 25 minutes and then we just couldn't keep up anymore.

I think it's real good to have a game like this. I tried to play my second team more than I usually do, because I want to get them acclimated to playoff (atmosphere), and I thought this was kind of a tournament game. Fred's kids played very hard and they did a good job. What they do is execute probably better than anybody in the league, and I wanted to get my kids used to coming across screens, because (the Hawks) set a lot of screens.

It gives eBay a new resource to leverage in search marketing efforts.

I think that it was a very good quarter for Yahoo!,

I saw her talent skyrocket and felt this was a natural progression.

Our kids have a type of confidence that if we're going to get beat, we're going to go down fighting. We haven't lost this year, let's put it that way. It didn't matter who we played, it was about us. Put them in front of us, and let's go at it.

Look at the success of J. Crew or L.L. Bean, ... Catalog companies have to show their items with pictures. J. Crew is a good example of a company that's done a good job of replicating the feel of their catalog online.

Just about any industry you can imagine is going to be impacted in some way,

We came out with something positive. They know what to expect. You have to take your game to another level. It's about us, and that's how we're going into the game. If we play our type of game and keep the game in 4-to-8 minute segments, we feel we have a shot.

The quarter was phenomenal. It was another in a long line of outstanding quarters by a company that really in almost every way is separated from its Internet peers.

We are in the midst of an inflection point for Yahoo -- and the online advertising industry in general -- that finally pushes Internet marketing into the mainstream and sets the stage for robust growth.

We're trying to get winners here, and Woodrow Wilson won it all last year. There are quite a few other prospects there that I will see. Camden is a tremendous source of talent. Once we get that pipeline solidified, I'll try to do some things in Baltimore, too.

We came out a little flat, and I'm not sure if they're taking it for granted, but I don't think so. We just can't get it done early.

Trust and safety is a huge division in the company. They have a number of safeguards in place, but it is a very diverse market place. The question, I think, is are they doing enough? Could they be doing more? Should they be doing more?

We continue to view eBay as a core Internet holding. However, we are still struggling to find a meaningful near-term catalyst and believe that the company is entering a more mature phase of its growth cycle that could limit potential upside in future quarters.

There's a greater level of comfort shopping online. Consumers are more used to the environment. They're more confident and aware of security issues.

I've seen a few bizarre things on the street, especially in the past year, and this would be close to the top of the list.

Teams that finish strong should be rewarded in the tournament. We finished this season as strong as any team could finish.

Pretty much anytime I have time off, we come to the beach.

Other Internet companies are not likely to blow through their quarters the way they have in the past,

Successful online merchants need to devote time to customer service, ... Companies need to realize customers do have fears and they need to address those fears head-on.

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

They know, just by talking about it, that it can happen.

They don't know it's like to lose. I think the experience they had last season, they drew from that.

There was some early quarter seasonal softness that may have been interpreted as a fundamental change in the appetite for online advertising. But the question isn't how does pricing change week to week, but what is the broader demand over an extended period of time.

There were some concerns about paid-search pricing, ... but we observed no obvious changes in advertiser behavior during the quarter and that seems to be borne out by Yahoo!'s results.

A rising tide should not necessarily lift all boats equally. The outlook shouldn't be the same for every search company.

Importantly, our comments are meant only to reflect near-term conditions, not long-term questions about the viability of online advertising.

I don't know how good we are, or how poor our opponents were, so we're going to get a real good test Sunday. The players like each other and it translates onto the floor.

A lot of locals eat lunch every day, ... Some eat three times and others eat five times a week.

The company is focused on becoming the e-commerce hub -- the destination people come to buy just about everything.

The company is clearly operating in a really attractive market right now, but the valuation fully recognizes that,