Marissa Mayer Quotes

Talent is what drives technology companies.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I like to get myself in over my head.

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

To me, speed is really about convenience.

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

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.

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

Search is an unsolved problem.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

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

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

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

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.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.