Eric Yuan Quotes

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.

The chief business of the American people is business.

The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.

If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

I don't know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can.

I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

I'm Shaggy. I'm a business.

The amount of start-ups that are being generated from Israel, and it's such a small state, they're looking for markets to really take those businesses in scale. We really, I think, have done a good job of indicating how Iowa is a good place for that.

I have admired Kevin Plank and Under Armour from afar. He has assembled an impressive team.

My goal is to create one of the greatest companies that's ever existed, and that has everything to do with the people, the culture, and what our core values are versus what we build or how we're perceived out in the market.

I live, breathe, and die by what kind of company we're creating.

I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

With the support and dedication from employees at every level of the company, we've been successful in expanding supplier diversity in many areas, including traditionally challenging areas such as construction services, legal and professional services.

I was very happy in Wipro; happier in Mindtree because I founded and took it public.

I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.

As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.