Marissa Mayer Quotes

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.

To me, speed is really about convenience.

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

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I love Google. I was there for 13 years, and if you told me I'd be as happy anywhere else, I would've probably doubted it. But I am as happy, if not happier, at Yahoo.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like to get myself in over my head.

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

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

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

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

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.

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.

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.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

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

If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

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

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

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.'

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

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.'

I refuse to be stereotyped.

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.

Talent is what drives technology companies.

I've always liked simplicity.

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.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

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

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

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.

Search is an unsolved problem.

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

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

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

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

Good students are good at all things.