Jerry Yang Quotes

Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.

The need to go digital remains a top priority for clients, and we are investing aggressively to drive innovation and deliver digital transformation.

The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.

Technology is only meaningful when it reaches the people.

Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

All business models have something challenging about them, but the problem with the attention merchant business model they have is they need to keep increasing the amount of ads they deliver to people and therefore make their product worse.

The thing I've always been most nerdy about is technology, in general.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

people are all there is to an organization