Marissa Mayer Quotes

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• 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…
• Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
• 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…
• With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.
• 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 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…
• The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The…
• Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo—in that order.
• Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.
• What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
• The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
• 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…
• If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
• You have to ruthlessly prioritize.
• 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…
• 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…

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