Jerry Yang Quotes
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Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
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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.
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The Yahoo story is still being written.
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There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
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Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.
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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.
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Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.
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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
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Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.
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I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
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The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
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Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
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It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
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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.
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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
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If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.
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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.
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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.
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The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.