Marissa Mayer Quotes

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

Marissa Mayer

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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- World
- Science
- Where
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

Lady Gregory
- People
- Good
- Work
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Irwin Shaw
- Time
- House
- Giving
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

Danica McKellar
- Couple
- Acting
- Born
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

Hanna Rosin
- Men
- Women
- Power
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

Dan Pink
- People
- Work
- Important