142 Quotes by Marissa Mayer

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on their quality of search services."

"This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs. We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could."

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