Top 47 Jerry Yang Quotes
#1. One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
Dan Rosensweig
#2. We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
Peter Fenton
#3. 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.
Jerry Yang
#4. 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.
Jerry Yang
#5. Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
Jerry Yang
#6. Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.
Jerry Yang
#7. Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.
Jerry Yang
#8. 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.
Jerry Yang
#9. Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.
Jerry Yang
#10. 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.
Jerry Yang
#11. If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.
Jerry Yang
#12. Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.
Jerry Yang
#13. 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.
Jerry Yang
#14. Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
Jerry Yang
#15. People are getting patents on things that are too general.
Jerry Yang
#16. I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.
Jerry Yang
#17. 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.
Jerry Yang
#18. I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.
Jerry Yang
#19. I'm a Stanford kid through and through.
Jerry Yang
#20. 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.
Jerry Yang
#21. 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.
Jerry Yang
#22. 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.
Jerry Yang
#23. I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
Jerry Yang
#24. China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.
Jerry Yang
#25. The Yahoo story is still being written.
Jerry Yang
#26. The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
Jerry Yang
#27. I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.
Jerry Yang
#28. The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
Jerry Yang
#29. 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.
Jerry Yang
#30. It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
Jerry Yang
#31. 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?
Jerry Yang
#32. There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
Jerry Yang
#34. I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.
Jerry Yang
#35. I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
Jerry Yang
#36. 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.
Jerry Yang
#37. The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.
Jerry Yang
#38. My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
Jerry Yang
#39. The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
Jerry Yang
#40. Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
Jerry Yang
#41. 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.
Jerry Yang
#42. Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.
Jerry Yang
#43. The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.
Jerry Yang
#44. Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.
Jerry Yang
#45. 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.
Jerry Yang
#47. Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
Jerry Yang
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