Yahoo's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

Kara Swisher

#3. The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.

Marissa Mayer

#4. Marissa Mayer, who became one of Silicon Valley's most famous working mothers not long after she took over as Yahoo's CEO in 2012, says that burnout isn't caused by working too hard, but by resentment at having to give up what really matters to you.

Eric Schmidt

#5. I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board

Carol Bartz

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

Jerry Yang

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

Carol Bartz

#10. I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo!

Ross Levinsohn

#11. When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.

Brian Acton

#12. Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.

Marissa Mayer

#13. 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

#14. Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

Ross Levinsohn

#15. 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

#16. In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.

Alex Berenson

#17. People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

Stewart Butterfield

#18. When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

Adam D'Angelo

#19. 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

#20. While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

Yahoo Serious

#21. Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

Fred Wilson

#22. If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.

Harvey Weinstein

#23. The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.

Marissa Mayer

#24. A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

Simon Davies

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

Terry Semel

#26. With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

Kara Swisher

#27. Yahoo! has clearly established itself as the go-to destination for big events and breaking news, and we are focused on providing the best digital canvas for the world's greatest storytellers to create, develop and showcase their visions.

Ross Levinsohn

#28. The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

Virginia Postrel

#29. 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

#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. Cruise through the gargantuan sites - YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo! - and it's as though modernism never existed. Twentieth-century print design never existed. European and Japanese design never existed. The Web's aesthetic might be called late-stage Atlantic City or early-stage Mall of America.

Virginia Heffernan

#32. If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.

Mark Zuckerberg

#33. We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Yahoo Serious

#34. It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

Nick D'Aloisio

#35. You can train any animal into any behavior on cue if it's a natural behavior to begin with. Racism, sexism, speciesism - all natural human behaviors. They can be triggered any time by any unscrupulous yahoo with a pulpit. A child could do it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#36. Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

Jason Calacanis

#37. 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

#38. Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Ross Levinsohn

#39. I've spent more than two decades speaking to women through magazines. What's so exciting about Yahoo is that I can inspire and connect with hundreds of millions more women, and bring them the magic of the fashion world in ways they haven't yet experienced.

Joe Zee

#40. 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

#41. Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

Michael Nesmith

#42. Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Yahoo Serious

#43. I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.

Brian Acton

#44. It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

Jason Calacanis

#45. 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.

Yahoo Serious

#46. Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Yahoo Serious

#47. I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.

Marissa Mayer

#48. Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

Dave Goldberg

#49. I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

Ross Levinsohn

#50. Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

Eric Schmidt

#51. You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.

James Packer

#52. The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

Eric Schmidt

#53. Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.

Ross Levinsohn

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

David Filo

#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. Asia has been by all accounts an incredible investment made by Yahoo.

Ross Levinsohn

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

Kara Swisher

#58. 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

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

David Filo

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

Yahoo Serious

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

Carol Bartz

#62. 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

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

Yahoo Serious

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Yahoo Serious

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

Amanda Eliza Bertha

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

Terry Semel

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

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

Yahoo Serious

#79. 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

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

Mike Krieger

#81. 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

#82. 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

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

Yahoo Serious

#84. 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

#85. 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.

Yahoo Serious

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

Yahoo Serious

#87. 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

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

Yahoo Serious

#89. 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.

Yahoo Serious

#90. The Yahoo story is still being written.

Jerry Yang

#91. 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

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

Jason Calacanis

#93. 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.

Yahoo Serious

#94. 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

#95. 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

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

Jerry Yang

#97. 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

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

Yahoo Serious

#99. 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

#100. 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