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All Quotes by author - Susan Wojcicki
" Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow. "
Bad
Reputation
Slow
" Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away. "
Go
Advertising
Going
" Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosing to spend a lot more time online. "
Time
More
Advertising
" After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance. "
Balance
Bed
Check
" As someone who's been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women. And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires. "
Great
Women
Creative
" At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. "
Hard Work
Work
Women
" CEOs need to say, 'We're going to make sure this is a great environment for all types of people.' I was a beneficiary of that. I got support from the leaders of Google - all men. "
Environment
People
Men
" Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write. "
Revolution
Writing
Time
" Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now. "
Sometimes
Life
Do The Right Thing
" Employing more women at all levels of a company, from new hires to senior leaders, creates a virtuous cycle. Companies become more attuned to the needs of their female employees, improving workplace culture while lowering attrition. "
Women
Company
Culture
" Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. "
Engineering
Culture
Jeans
" Even in a culture where people are well meaning, there are sometimes 'microaggressions.' People who will just cut you off. You'll be talking, and someone will interrupt you. That's become a big pet peeve of mine. "
Meaning
Will
You
" Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came. "
People
Child
Best
" First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization. "
Good
Women
Advertising
" Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads. "
Experience
Right
Out
" Girls are being left out of the conversation when it comes to technology, led to think of tech as insular and antisocial without ever being given a chance to correct those perceptions. "
Think
Chance
Conversation
" Google has been doing well. As much as possible we're trying to share back with the employees. They will continue to create a lot of value. "
Value
Create
Doing
" Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue. "
Business
Want
Show
" Google is a consumer brand and people need to be comfortable. If we were just an advertising brand we wouldn't have the same concerns. We've always tried to promote transparency and choice among our users. "
Need
People
Choice
" Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters. "
Living
Writing
Book
" Growth is always essential. Running any tech company, you want to make sure you're growing. Putting in place all of the right structure to be able to ensure growth. "
You
Growth
Place
" Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it. "
Life
You
Child
" I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising. "
Future
Advertising
I Am
" I don't feel like I'm a perfect mom, and then there are times at work where I feel like maybe I wasn't perfect here because of constraints on my time. But having the sum of both of those things going on in my life makes me a better mom at the end of the day, and I think gives me really important perspectives in the workplace as well. "
Mom
Work
Time
" If a third of Americans' time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It's not proportional. "
Quarter
Why
Time
" If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school. "
Learning
People
Skill
" If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades. "
Society
Women
Losing
" If you are working 24/7, you're not going to have any interesting ideas. "
Going
You
Working
" I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from. "
Setbacks
Lot
Learned
" I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe. "
People
Create
Desire
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