20 Quotes from Larry Page
20 Quotes from Larry Page 20 Quotes from Larry Page 20 Quotes from Larry PagecompiledbyJamesAltucher.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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