Jim Barksdale Quotes

United States, Business Executive
January 24, 1943

James Love Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) is an American executive who served as the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999.

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

Jim Barksdale
- People
- World
- Great
In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Jim Barksdale

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

Jim Barksdale
Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

Jim Barksdale
- Jump