Top 30 Jerry Yang Quotes

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.

The Internet’s a driving force in the change from mass media to ‘my media,’ in which consumers will be their own programmers.

I will never be a CEO again.

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

I like Google.

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.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

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.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It’s not a hard decision.

The Yahoo story is still being written.

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.

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.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

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.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn’t exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

It’s not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

I’m a Stanford kid through and through.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

Without rain, there is no life.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

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.

China’s Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Companies that banked their future on broadband – most of them are not very successful.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

I believe Yahoo!’s best years are still ahead of it.