Marissa Mayer famous 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.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

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

#Inspirational #Life Is Short #Interesting

I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Thinking #Two #People

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Feelings #Risk #Scared

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.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Needs #Selling #Theory

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

#Technology #Sides #Fusion

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Phones #Digital #Mobile Phones

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

#User Experience #Users

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.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Thinking #Technology #People

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

#Mom #Fashion #Art

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
-- Marissa Mayer

#People #Want #Young

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.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Giving Up #Knowing #Resentment

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Differences #Aptitude #Mathematical

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Motivational #Thinking #Littles

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Lists #Bottom

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

#Passion #Men #Play

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Jocks #Ruffles #Computer

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Cases #Worst #Not Ready

I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo—in that order.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Thinking #Order

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Reality #Imagination #Excuse

Creativity thrives best when constrained.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Creativity #Thrive

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Innovation #Vision #Born

People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.
-- Marissa Mayer

#People #Google #Use

To me, the future is personalization .
-- Marissa Mayer

#Personalization

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Thinking #Interesting #Next

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
-- Marissa Mayer

#Wonderful #Moments #Break

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Thinking #Information #Online

I like to get myself in over my head.
-- Marissa Mayer

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Rhythm

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

#Jobs #Thinking #Offers

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.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Giving Up #Responsibility #Roles

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Thinking #Networking #Social Network

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Self #Being A Woman #Self Conscious

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.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Technology #People #Creative

The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Google #Want #Labs

Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it
-- Marissa Mayer

#Home #Army #Simple

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

#People #Matter #Details

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Numbers #Years #Imagine

Good students are good at all things.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Students

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Believe #Thinking #Rights

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Sleep #People #Matter

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

#Powerful #Stories #World

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

#Book #Media #Radio

I was Google's first woman engineer.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Google #Firsts

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

#Army #Simple #Thinking

I refuse to be stereotyped.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Refuse

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

#Smart #People #Wonderful

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Badass #Thinking #Technology

I've always liked simplicity.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Simplicity

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Night #Thinking #Glasses

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

#Vacation #Long #Pace

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

#Want #Profession

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
-- Marissa Mayer

#People #Google #Important

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Believe #Balance #Way

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Believe #Mirrors #World

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

#College #Years #Doctors

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.'
-- Marissa Mayer

#Girl #Weekend #Thinking

Vince Lombardi says, you know, in my life there are three things: God, family, and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family, and Yahoo, in that order.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Funny Inspirational #Order #Green

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Technology #Curves #Lines

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Data #Answers #Collections

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'
-- Marissa Mayer

#Ideas #Entrepreneur #Google

Search is an unsolved problem.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Problem #Unsolved Problems

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

#Want #What You Want

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Opportunity #Thinking #Positive Energy

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Motivational #Rooms #Persons

Talent is what drives technology companies,
-- Marissa Mayer

#Technology #Talent #Company

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Prioritize

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'
-- Marissa Mayer

#Creativity #Thinking #People

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Inspiring #Data #Economic

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

#Math #Unusual #Math And Science

To me, speed is really about convenience.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Speed #Convenience

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Mom #Mother #Giving

The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Keys #Html #Long

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Today #World #Internet

New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.
-- Marissa Mayer

#New Beginnings #Thinking #May

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Passion #Passionate #Gender

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when theres everything thats professional photographers. Certainly theres varying levels of skills but we didnt want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Skills #Space #Quality

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech,
-- Marissa Mayer

#Enough

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
-- Marissa Mayer

#Fundraising #Becoming #Company