I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook. Jerry Yang More Quotes by Jerry Yang More Quotes From Jerry Yang Without rain, there is no life. Jerry Yang no-life without rain life If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game. Jerry Yang game win you I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care. Jerry Yang mistakes nobody my-own care I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility. Jerry Yang things flexibility horizon long 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. Jerry Yang started first early late Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people. Jerry Yang technology tools unique people It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business. Jerry Yang stop doing business people The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use. Jerry Yang cloud become revolution use 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. Jerry Yang you emotional work art There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data. Jerry Yang operations data decision opportunity Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it. Jerry Yang us without create environment 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? Jerry Yang thought curious law history My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. Jerry Yang present my-life time life The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo. Jerry Yang outside come me time 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. Jerry Yang think you perspective money I'm a Stanford kid through and through. Jerry Yang through kid stanford Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision. Jerry Yang meet you entrepreneur decision China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S. Jerry Yang web away just china Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist. Jerry Yang market going out i-am 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. Jerry Yang innovation technology focus culture
