Jerry Yang Quotes

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

I hope to be back in management in the next future

I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

I would love to be a corporate leader.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

My job has changed over the years, 22 years roughly I've been cooking professionally. When I was younger, I aspired to be the star player. Now, it's more I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the team wins the game.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

I regard office as not an end but an opportunity.

People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to business.

There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'

I've never run from a job; I've always run to another one.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

Business is my passion.

I highly appreciate the work of Ed Woodward, the CEO of Manchester United.

I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but for me, it's about pushing to the point where I can be Mark Walhberg, Ryan Murphy, or Shonda Rhimes. I want to be at that table in terms of bringing new voices in.

I didn't aspire to be the CEO of Deloitte, but I aspired to be a leader in Deloitte.