Marissa Mayer Quotes

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Marissa Mayer

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : May 30, 1975

Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.

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Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

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Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

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I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'

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For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

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I like to get myself in over my head.

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Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

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Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

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Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'

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Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

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Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

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I refuse to be stereotyped.

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I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'

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I really love color.

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Good students are good at all things.

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I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

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I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

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I was Google's first woman engineer.

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I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

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