30 Quotes by Mary Meeker

Yahoo!'s financial model shows great flexibility, in our view, ... Yahoo! should be a core holding for growth investors. The company has one of the best financial models we have ever seen and we consider it to be one of the world's most powerful brands.

The reality here is we're dealing with a market environment that was overheated.

One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

It isn't uncommon this time of year for prices of technology stocks to contract when catalysts are insufficient.

Most have a trickle of volume and the bulk will remain of marginal import in the scheme of things. We saw an exchange for the worldwide market in Ferris wheels recently -- we started to wonder if we are reaching the peak.

We continue to believe that, at the margin, Microsoft shares should outperform over time, owing to the outlook for above-average revenues and profit growth, ... But there are qualifiers, and finding catalysts is key.

We believe the first 10 years of the Internet were a warm-up for what's about to happen.

We aren't at all opposed to disciplining Microsoft, but we think a breakup is simply too harsh. We continue to believe that a more appropriate remedy would relate to behavioral changes, government changes and perhaps an economic hit.