Marissa Mayer Quotes
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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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I had no idea how to eat sensibly.
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things.
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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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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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It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.
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You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
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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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I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
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I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
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I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
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The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.
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I think that the big piece here is that it really allows us to partner. Yahoo! has always been a very friendly company.
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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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I've always liked simplicity.
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I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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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.
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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 think I’ve always thought of culture as DNA. I don’t know a lot about genetics, but I understand some of it and I think that what you really want are the genes that are positive to hyper-express themselves in culture.
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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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With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.