Terry Semel Quotations

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

Yahoo is all about content. Deep reservoirs of important content in many, many strong areas.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network, ... We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

What advertisers are finding, and what our research demonstrates, is that the more they utilize both forms of advertising on the Yahoo network, the better they do with each.

We believe we are in a position of strength,

Yahoo! is really off to a good start in 2006.

Yahoo! is off to a terrific start in 2005, ... We are in an excellent position to take advantage of all forms of advertising on the Web.

Yahoo! has tremendous potential to take a great share of the online market.

Yahoo! has a strong track record of focusing and delivering on some of the biggest opportunities on the Internet. In 2005, Yahoo! continued to achieve significant results by providing some of the most innovative services to our hundreds of millions of consumers and deepening both our global reach and user engagement. As we look ahead, we will continue to focus on creating the best consumer experience, finding new ways to engage our audience and delivering the best value for our advertisers.

Yahoo had another strong performance this quarter. Our overall advertising business saw solid growth and our user numbers continued to climb.

Yahoo Go allows us to free the best of what the Internet has to offer from the confines of the browser and provides consumers fast and easy access to the essential products and services they know and love.

Yahoo and Seven have very complementary businesses and brands, and we see this as a tremendous opportunity to build a leadership position in Australia.

When things begin to turn around, Yahoo! will have refined its capabilities, built out its offerings and services, introduced new and innovative methods and further developed our relationships with agencies and clients.

set partnerships to achieve a strategic business objective.

So far they don't seem to have a plan, but maybe they do. Maybe magic will happen tomorrow.

One year ago, we were underperforming the overall advertising market, ... Now, because of this balance, we feel confident that we will achieve double-digit year-over-year growth in marketing services during the second half of this year.

We've done that, and they now represent approximately 40 percent of our total revenue.

look more and more like a portal. And as a portal, it probably would be rated No. 4.

While advertising revenue will always be an important part of our revenue base, we will leverage non-core assets to deliver premium services,

We're very proud of what we have accomplished so far but fully embrace the belief that we're still at the beginning of significant long-term opportunities.

We do expect to continue these strong results, and to that end we have upwardly revised our full-year outlook.

This will be a film ... that will be rated R,

We said we would shift our revenue mix and create additional revenue streams in fees, listings and transactions.

There is no single event that will transform this company. Rather, it will be a series of events starting this quarter that will demonstrate Yahoo!'s momentum and progress, ... In order to strengthen and grow the business, we will pursue partnerships and joint ventures with major corporations, make acquisitions, and continue to innovate and develop new services.

We will be reorganizing the business around these key areas, and as we capitalize on our strengths and focus the business, this realignment may also result in a reduction of the total number of our employees.

The results highlight the power of our brand,

This is a marathon run, not a sprint.

This is truly a turning point for the IM industry, and we believe our agreement with Microsoft will help usher in a new era of IP communications,

As we reorganized the business and reduced costs throughout the year, Yahoo! managed through the difficult environment, ... We continue to focus on long-term growth as we execute our strategy of building a diversified global business.

It's a 21st-century media company. The difference between the more traditional media companies and companies like Yahoo is all about technology, and the two - technology and media - totally marry each other.

It's a great opportunity for us. It will allow us to do a better job every time we do a search.

it's been tough; it's difficult for all businesses and all industries. We keep hoping and thinking that maybe by the second half of next year we will see a movement upward.

It was a great cause and a wonderful night. We were so happy to help.

If you're wondering, I have a big smile on my face.

By buying out Softbank's JV (joint venture) interests, our strategic flexibility to take advantage of international growth opportunities in Korea and Europe will be enhanced, and this new structure should lead to a more efficient, longer-term operating and tax model.

By buying out Softbank... our strategic flexibility to take advantage of international growth opportunities in Korea and Europe will be enhanced, and this new structure should lead to a more efficient, longer-term operating and tax model.

I believe online advertising will increase in importance and ultimately will get a larger share of company's overall marketing budgets, ... We see this time as our opportunity to regroup, rebuild and be stronger than ever for when ad spending picks up again around the middle of 2002.