Semel Quotes

#1. He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
[Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via leti.]

Horace

#3. While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

Terry Semel

#4. Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Terry Semel

#5. Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

John Wooden

#6. I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

Terry Semel

#7. One loving heart sets another on fire.

Saint Augustine

#8. When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

Terry Semel

#9. There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

Terry Semel

#10. Anger is a form of depression,

C.D. Reiss

#11. I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Terry Semel

#12. The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising.

Terry Semel

#13. Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

Terry Semel

#14. I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Rebecca West

#15. Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Terry Semel

#16. If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on ...

Dream Theater

#17. The world could do with a good deal more mess, if you ask me, he said.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

Terry Semel

#19. Yahoo is all about content. Deep reservoirs of important content in many, many strong areas.

Terry Semel

#20. I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

Al Yankovic