Quotes by Jerry Yang - Page 1

I will never be a CEO again.
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Ceo
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Without rain, there is no life.
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Rain
Without
No Life
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I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.
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Calls
Gm
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The Yahoo story is still being written.
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Yahoo
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I'm a Stanford kid through and through.
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Stanford
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People are getting patents on things that are too general.
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Patents
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The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
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Pursue
Interests
Outside
Yahoo
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China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.
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Grown
Services
Web
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It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
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Patents
Business People Doing
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I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.
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Flexibility
Horizon
Term
Invest
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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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Pace
Mistakes
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Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
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Broadband
Successful
Companies
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I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
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Tomorrow
Facebook
Yahoo
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Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
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Anniversary
Microsoft
Companies
Intel
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The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
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Founders
Apple
Entrepreneurs
Sold
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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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Bottom
Economist
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Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.
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Destination
Integrated
Platform
Search
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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
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Advertising
First Amendment
Free Expression
Hinges
Internet
Free
Amendment
Medium
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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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Stanford
Allow
Yahoo
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Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.
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Decision
Entrepreneur
Sure
Bet
Jack
Ma
Meet
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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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Data
Decision
Operations
Businesses
Huge Opportunity
Transform
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Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
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Data
Enterprise
Serious
Experiencing
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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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Revolution
Cloud
Provided
Spur
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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.
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Consumers
Driving
Driving Force
Force
Internet
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Programmers
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Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.
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Finance
Old People
Thrive
Communications
Pets
Yahoo
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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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Tools
Franchise
Importantly
Increasingly
Yahoo
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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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Founding
My Time
Rewarding Experiences
Life Time My Life
Experiences
Rewarding
Yahoo
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Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.
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Internet People Way
Brand
Consumer
Deliver
Yahoo
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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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Accelerate
Growth
Profitable
Brand
Consumer
Model
Operating
Yahoo
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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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Collecting
Dynasty
Auction
Purchase
Scroll
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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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Perspective
Gotten
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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.
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Communicate
Profound
Regard
Information People Way
Essential
Obtain
Platform
Profound Impact
Services
Yahoo
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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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Competitiveness
Advertiser
Leverage
Sales
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I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?
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Curious
Electrical
What If
Engineer
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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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Lively
Silk
Art Work Always
Analytical
Dances
Describe
Emotional Level
Work Art Always
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The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.
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Goods
Limited Resources
Online
Payment
Resources
Buy
Card
Choice
Due
Either
Limited
Market
Network
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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.
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Excellence
Full Potential
Innovation
Strategy
Enhance
Leading
Product
Yahoo
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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.
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Bullish
Computing
Data
Mobility
Next Generation
Sensors
Cloud
Revolutionize
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Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.
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Access
Creating
Developing
Inventory
Merchants
Products
Seamless
Change Technology People
Complex
Fundamentally
Local
Shop
Successfully
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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.
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Experience
Advice
Company
Entrepreneur
Excited
Growth
Past
Am
Area
Board
Continue
Exciting Time
Look
Forward
Time Experience Look
Join
Provide
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Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
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Beauty
Technology
Boundaries
Capable
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Innovation
Moving
Painting
Profound
Pushing
Unique
Beauty Nature Art
Rare
Creates
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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.
Jerry Yang /
Available
Dealer
Dynasty
Fortunate
Lotus
Standard
Yuan
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