Yahoo My Quotes

#1. 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

#2. All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

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

Jerry Yang

#4. Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies.

Hubert Burda

#5. The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.

Marvin Ammori

#6. The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

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#7. Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

Jason Calacanis

#8. In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Vinod Khosla

#9. In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

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#10. I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

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#11. My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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#12. Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.

Marissa Mayer

#13. It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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#14. The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

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#15. I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

Ross Levinsohn

#16. Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.

Jan Koum

#17. While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Kara Swisher

#18. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

Tom Lantos

#19. I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.

Mike Krieger

#20. 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

#21. The Yahoo story is still being written.

Jerry Yang

#22. If you subscribe to any online service, whether it be AOL, Google, Yahoo, or the Huffington Post, have you noticed that you are forced to watch a seemingly endless ad before the video story appears about a news item that caught your eye? AOL and the Huffington Post are especially annoying.

Mark Skousen

#23. 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

#24. One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

DJ Shadow

#25. I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

Amber Benson

#26. Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

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#27. I'm very grateful and proud of the progress Yahoo! has made over the past year. When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year in order to help Yahoo! during a critical time of transformation.

Alfred Amoroso

#28. You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

Michael K. Powell

#29. 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

#30. I could pose as a Yahoo rep claiming that there's been some sort of fault, and somebody else is getting your e-mail, and we're going to have to remove your account and reinstall it. So what we'll do is reset the current password that you have - and by the way, what is it?

Kevin Mitnick

#31. Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

David Filo

#32. I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.

David Carson

#33. We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

Yahoo Serious

#34. While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

Kara Swisher

#35. I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

Henry Selick

#36. The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.

Vint Cerf

#37. In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

Yahoo Serious

#38. Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.

Marissa Mayer

#39. Combining the premium content and reach of Yahoo! as the world's leading digital media company with Facebook provides branded advertisers with unmatched opportunity.

Ross Levinsohn

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

Terry Semel

#41. In case you are wondering about the name, Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Amanda Eliza Bertha

#42. It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

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#43. 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

#44. Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

Nick D'Aloisio

#45. Hollywood is horrible ... it's beyond satire.

Yahoo Serious

#46. 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

#47. I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Alfred Lin

#48. It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

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#49. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#50. Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Carol Bartz

#51. We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

Yahoo Serious

#52. Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

David Filo

#53. But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.

Joe Mantello

#54. A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

Kara Swisher

#55. You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that ... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

Yahoo Serious

#56. When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top.

John Battelle

#57. From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.

Stewart Butterfield

#58. Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

Jonathan Raymond