Marissa Mayer Quotes

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• 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

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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

  Marissa Mayer

  Motivational, Rooms, Persons

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

  Marissa Mayer

  Cases, Worst, Ready

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• Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

  Marissa Mayer

  Innovation, Vision, Born

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

  Marissa Mayer

  People, Together, Innovative

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

  Marissa Mayer

  Feelings, Risk, Scared

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• You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

  Marissa Mayer

  Prioritize

  "Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says God Comes Before Family and Work" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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

  Marissa Mayer

  Lists, Bottom

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• 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

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• 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.

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  New Beginnings, Thinking, May

  "Marissa Mayer Tells The Story Of Why She Became Yahoo CEO, Even Though She Was About To Have A Kid" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. March 29, 2013.

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• It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

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  Smart, Player, Thinking

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• I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Next

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• Creativity thrives best when constrained.

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  Creativity, Thrive

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• 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

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• Search is an unsolved problem.

  Marissa Mayer

  Problem, Unsolved Problems

  "Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 - and 20". Interview with Jessica Guynn, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 7, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Passion, Men, Play

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force". Interview with Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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

  Marissa Mayer

  User Experience, Users

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• 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

  Technology, Thinking, People

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

  Marissa Mayer

  Motivational, Strong Women, Successful

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

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  People, Details, Matter

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Common Threads, Two

  "How I Made It: Marissa Mayer, Google's champion of innovation and design" by Jessica Guynn, articles.latimes.com. January 2, 2011.

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

  Marissa Mayer

  Enough, Dangerous, Knows

  "Yahoo reveals its new logo" by Casey Newton, www.theverge.com. Sep 5, 2013.

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• 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.'

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  Creativity, Thinking, People

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

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  Badass, Technology, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Knowing, Resentment

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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