Jerry Yang Quotes

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

There's no way we can invent enough stuff for a company of Merck's size.

Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.

I believe companies like ours are going to be as large as media companies and social networking companies that are valued in the tens of billions of dollars.

As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.

Cisco never had a red quarter. Never. Took us three years to get funding, and in those three years, we were never in the red, and that was because we had two products to sell. They were not sexy or cool, but we had enough of a market that we could generate enough of a cash stream to grow the company.

My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna Life Insurance.

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses.

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

CDK has a leadership position in a dynamic and rapidly evolving automotive technology market, and I am energized by the chance to help grow this unique company and take it to the next level.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.