Marissa Mayer Quotes

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Marissa Mayer

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : May 30, 1975

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

Marissa Mayer

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Marissa Mayer

Search is an unsolved problem.

Marissa Mayer

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

Marissa Mayer

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Marissa Mayer

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

Marissa Mayer

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

Marissa Mayer

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

Marissa Mayer

To me, speed is really about convenience.

Marissa Mayer

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

Marissa Mayer

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

Marissa Mayer

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

Marissa Mayer

Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.

Marissa Mayer

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Marissa Mayer

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Marissa Mayer

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

Marissa Mayer

I don't need much sleep.

Marissa Mayer

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

Marissa Mayer

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Marissa Mayer

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

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