Marissa Mayer Quotes
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Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.
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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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For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
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I was Google's first woman engineer.
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I'm a geek.
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Search is an unsolved problem.
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I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
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I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.
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What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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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.
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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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I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
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Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
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Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
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The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
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For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
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I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
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When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.