Marissa Mayer Quotes
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I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
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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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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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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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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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I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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I had no idea how to eat sensibly.
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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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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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I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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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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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 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 refuse to be stereotyped.
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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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With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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I don't need much sleep.
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I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.
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The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.
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I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
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I've always liked simplicity.
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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.