20 Quotes from Larry Page

20 Quotes from Larry Page

20 Quotes from Larry Page

20 Quotes from Larry Pagecompiled by JamesAltucher.com

“Especially in technology, we need

revolutionary change, not

incremental change.”

“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.”

“Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally

do wrong? They usually miss the future.”

“We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a

lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is

Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on

building the things that don't exist.”

“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.”

“If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't

taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested

in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.”

“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.”

“We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few

than too many.”

“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.”

"What is the one sentence summary of how you

change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!"

"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."

“I used to have this debate with Steve Jobs, and he would always

say, 'You guys are doing too much stuff.' He did a good job of doing

one or two things really well. We'd like to have a bigger impact on the

world by doing more things.”

“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.”

"I don't think we're going to run out of important things

to do, compared with the resources that we have. There

are many, many problems in the world that need solving."

“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.”

“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 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 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.”

“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.”

"You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. Obviously, the

best way we've come up with doing that is

through companies."

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