Marissa Mayer quotes
With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on their quality of search services.
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?
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
Creativity loves constraint. Simplicity is king on the small screen.
If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.
You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
For each of the executive hires I've made--and every hire I've made--I've gotten the exact person I wanted. It's been surprisingly easy to assemble what I think is the best and brightest team.
Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do--and the business side.
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.
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 think threats are always opportunities...and I think the opportunity for us is to focus on the users and innovate. Then the opposite of that is really the biggest threat, which is that we would somehow become complacent.
Work for someone who believes in you, because when they believe in you they'll invest in you.
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.
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.
We believe that if we focus on the users, the money will come. In a truly virtual business, if you're successful, you'll be working at something that's so necessary people will pay for it in subscription form. Or you'll have so many users that advertisers will pay to sponsor the site.
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.
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.