Larry Page Quotes

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Always deliver more than expected.

Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

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.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.

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.

For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

You can be serious without a suit

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.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

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.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

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.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

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.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

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.

We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world.

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

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.

Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

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.

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.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.