Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, is known for sharing insights that reflect on innovation, teamwork, and the future of technology. He emphasizes the importance of asking the right questions and pursuing ambitious projects, even if they seem impossible at first. Page advocates for a collaborative approach to problem-solving, suggesting that great achievements are often the result of collective effort rather than individual genius.
His perspective encourages taking calculated risks and embracing failure as a pathway to success, underlining the significance of perseverance and vision in driving technological advancement.
60+ Inspirational Quotes of Larry Page
Always deliver more than expected.
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
It’s very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
You can be serious without a suit.
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.
We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.
We should be building great things that don’t exist.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
You’re probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.
There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.
Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.
Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That’s artificial intelligence.
Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We’re only at one percent of what’s possible, and we’re moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.
You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.
Almost everyone who has had an idea that’s somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they’re insane.
We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.
You need to get one thing done well, or else you don’t have permission to do anything else.
If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don’t have a really narrowly focused education.
Our mission is to organize the world’s information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it’s going to work.
If we are not trusted, we have no business.
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.
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.
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.
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.
You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
The Star Trek computer doesn’t seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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?
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.
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.
You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.
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.
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 your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.
I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.
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.
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.
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I’ve pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.
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.
As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.
I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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.
As we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000.
We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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.
If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.
We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.
The amazing thing is that we’re part of people’s daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It’s just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people’s lives.
It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.
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.
Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.
The “Be good” concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
When you aim for the stars you may come up short, but still reach the moon.