56 Quotes by Yuri Milner

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.