Larry Page Quotes

 Larry Page Quotes

1. “Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.” – Larry Page

2. “I think 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. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.” – Larry Page

3. “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 way from that.” – Larry Page

4. “I have always believed that technology should do the hard work – discovery, organization, communication – so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.” – Larry Page

5. “I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.” – Larry Page

6. “Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” – Larry Page

7. “If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.” – Larry Page

8. “Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.” – Larry Page

9. “My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.” – Larry Page

10. “We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.” – Larry Page



Larry Page Quotes


11. “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.” – Larry Page

12. “Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.” – Larry Page

13. “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.” – Larry Page

14. “Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.” – Larry Page

15. “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.” – Larry Page

16. “We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.” – Larry Page

17. “If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” – Larry Page

18. “You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.” – Larry Page

19. “The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job – that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.” – Larry Page

20. “Deep knowledge from your manager goes a long way toward motivating you. And I have a pretty good capability for that.” – Larry Page