Top 500 Marissa Meyer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

— Marissa Meyer

2. “You have to ruthlessly prioritize.”

— Marissa Meyer

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3. “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 Meyer

4. “I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.”

— Marissa Meyer

5. “Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do – and the business side.”

— Marissa Meyer

6. “You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.”

— Marissa Meyer

7. “Creativity thrives best when constrained.”

— Marissa Meyer

8. “Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”

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

— Marissa Meyer

10. “To me, the future is personalization .”

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11. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow.”

— Marissa Meyer

12. “I have returned and I am here to take back what’s mine.”

— Marissa Meyer

13. “Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.”

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14. “One cannot be brave who has no fear.”

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15. “Impossible is my specialty.”

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16. “Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.”

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17. “Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.”

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18. “Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”

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19. “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”

— Marissa Meyer

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

— Marissa Meyer

21. “Better to under-promise and over-deliver.”

— Marissa Meyer

22. “With data collection, ‘the sooner the better’ is always the best answer.”

— Marissa Meyer

23. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”

— Marissa Meyer

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

— Marissa Meyer

25. “She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.”

— Marissa Meyer

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

— Marissa Meyer

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27. “How can we expect people to change if we don’t give them the chance to?”

— Marissa Meyer

28. “One cannot be awed who has no soul. Just as one cannot be brave who has no fear.”

— Marissa Meyer

29. “Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?”

— Marissa Meyer

30. “Over everything, I choose you.”

— Marissa Meyer

31. “I refuse to be stereotyped.”

— Marissa Meyer

32. “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 Meyer

33. “I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.”

— Marissa Meyer

34. “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.”

— Marissa Meyer

35. “Stuff and nonsense. Nonsense and stuff and much of a muchness and nonsense all over again. We are all mad here, don’t you know?”

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36. “Once we have total power, what’s to keep us from becoming villains ourselves?”

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37. “I’m going to escape now.”

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38. “Pick something and make it great.”

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39. “Soon, the whole world would be searching for her -Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost.”

— Marissa Meyer

40. “But hoping,” he said, “is how the impossible can be possible after all.”

— Marissa Meyer

41. “We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.”

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42. “She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.”

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43. “When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”

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44. “That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I’m afraid I already knew that about you.”

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45. “Don’t thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.”

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46. “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 Meyer

47. “Everyone has a nightmare.” He pressed his forehead against hers. “Maybe I want you to be mine.”

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48. “You have my heart, Jest. I don’t know if you deserve it or not. I can’t tell if you’re a hero or a villain, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours.”

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49. “The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.”

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50. “She is a rose, Jest. Lovely on the eyes, yes, but such thorns are not to be ignored.”

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