Top 128 Quotes & Sayings by Marissa Mayer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businesswoman Marissa Mayer.

Last updated on November 3, 2024.

Marissa Ann Mayer is an American businesswoman and investor. She is an information technology executive, and co-founder of Sunshine Contacts. Mayer formerly served as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo!, a position she held beginning in July 2012. It was announced in January 2017 that she would step down from the company's board upon the sale of Yahoo!'s operating business to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion. She did not join the newly combined company, now called Verizon Media, and she announced her resignation on June 13, 2017. She is a graduate of Stanford University and was a long-time executive, usability leader, and key spokeswoman for Google.

American - Businesswoman | Born: May 30, 1975

Source: Wikipedia

I really love color.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

I've always liked simplicity.

Marissa Mayer

I like to get myself in over my head.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

Marissa Mayer

I don't need much sleep.

Marissa Mayer

Search is an unsolved problem.

Marissa Mayer

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

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Marissa Mayer

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

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Marissa Mayer

The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.

Marissa Mayer

I was Google's first woman engineer.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

Marissa Mayer

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Marissa Mayer

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

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Marissa Mayer

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

Marissa Mayer

Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.

Marissa Mayer

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

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

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

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

Marissa Mayer

Good students are good at all things.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

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

Marissa Mayer

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

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

Marissa Mayer

Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.

Marissa Mayer

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

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

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

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

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

To me, speed is really about convenience.

Marissa Mayer