Marissa Mayer quotes

Marissa Mayer is an American businesswoman and former president and CEO of Yahoo. Known for her impact at Google, she played a significant role in developing some of the company's most popular products. She continues to be recognized as a leading figure in technology and innovation. Here are 55 of her quotes:

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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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.

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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 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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David Karp is just incredibly special. I like to think that I'm good at empathy, but I will say that David Karp is just incredibly empathetic and really in tune with the community of people that he has, that are contributing and creating on Tumblr.

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I've heard both the founding stories of Google and Yahoo, and for both those companies, the founders didn't even have to get into a car. They could literally go to the law office, the venture capitalists, the bank... on a bike. It's all that close together.

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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

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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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I refuse to be stereotyped.

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I'm proud of what we achieved at Yahoo. That said, we had a quickly decaying legacy business. All we really managed to do was offset the declines.

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I was at Google. And if you looked at Tumblr and Yahoo!, you know when you look at a map and you can see the way that South America and Africa used to fit together, I sort of joked that as we got to know Tumblr we were like we kind of felt like those continents, like our users were older, their users were younger.

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It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science.

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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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I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

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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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You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

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

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Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

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

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Good students are good at all things.

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