Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
Larry PageWe 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.
Larry PageIt 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 PageLots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Larry PageMany 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 PageIf we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Larry PageIf you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
Larry PageOptimism 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.
Larry PageThe "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.
Larry PagePeople 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.
Larry PageAs we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000.
Larry PageWe believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
Larry PageWe'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.
Larry PageSergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided.
Larry PageExcellence 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.
Larry PageIf you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.
Larry PageOur goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.
Larry PageIf 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.
Larry PageYou need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.
Larry PageArtificial 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.
Larry PageWe 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.
Larry PageEvery 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.
Larry PageHow exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
Larry PageYou 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 PageAlmost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.
Larry PagePart of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.
Larry PageOur 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.
Larry PageYou 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 PageThe 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.
Larry PageYou 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.
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