Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

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.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

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.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I really love color.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

Good students are good at all things.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I like to get myself in over my head.

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.