Larry Page Company Quotations

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.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Our company relies on having the trust of our users and using that information for that benefit. That's a very strong motivation for us. We're committed to that. If you start to mandate how products are designed, I think that's a really bad path to follow. I think instead we should have laws that protect the privacy of data, for example, from government requests and other kinds of requests.

This amendment would actually grant one company an unregulated monopoly.

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?

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.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.