Larry Page Quotes
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.
You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.
Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.
We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.
You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.
You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.
There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.
How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.
The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.
Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.
I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.
As we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000.
Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.