Jerry Yang Quotes (19 Quotes)

China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.

I can't clearly comment on that ..., ... I would say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.

However, although Yahoo is compelled to push the envelope, ... only 50 to 100 companies have broad enough appeal and are willing to put up enough money to do business with the portal sites.

Now we're seeing services and applications. This has been one of the promises the Internet has offered for a long time -- the consumer can really be the programmer.

The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.

We think small business in the US and other markets are very fragmented and a tremendous opportunity for a quasi-automated business model like we have to take advantage of.

We have always had a long-term commitment to China and even more so to the development of its Internet industry, We're confident that Yahoo is putting its resources behind the right management team, which operates according to similar values as we do, and shares the same vision for providing the most essential and relevant services to consumers and businesses.

It's a huge opportunity for Yahoo to be closer to our user base without them having to fire up a browser.

We are all here in China that represents quite a lot of opportunities, not only on the business side, but also on the social side,

To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law. We don't know what they want that information for, we're not told what they look for. If they give us the proper documentation and court orders, we give them things that satisfy both our privacy policy and the local rules.

This has huge potential because it does combine the user-participation model with the algorithm. It will take multiple years to play out.

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

The challenge for us is to build partnerships over time that will realize the benefits others are gaining through mergers and acquisitions.

We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws,

The biggest struggle was probably giving up something that we'd been doing for five or six years, doing our Ph.D.s and almost being there,

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

We look at our users' interests, without our users we don't have business.

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Terry has said he's been very clear about the fact that the habits and the desires of the consumer are the common theme between his last career and his current career.