Marissa Mayer Quotes

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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.

Marissa Mayer
It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

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

Marissa Mayer
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.

Marissa Mayer
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.

Marissa Mayer
I think that the big piece here is that it really allows us to partner. Yahoo! has always been a very friendly company.

Marissa Mayer
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.

Marissa Mayer
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.

Marissa Mayer
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.

Marissa Mayer