Quotes from Jerry Yang

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.

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.

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

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

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.

Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

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.

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

The Yahoo story is still being written.

I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

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.

I'm a Stanford kid through and through.