Larry Page Quotations | Page 2

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

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.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.

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.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit.. so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.

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.

Optimism 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.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Always deliver more than expected.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

The key to these things is making (the entire package) work seamlessly.

The ultimate search engine, ... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

This is a historic meeting of established and new media.

The dream as conceived 25 years ago has not been achieved. Until software becomes the ultimate tool for collaboration, productivity, and efficiency, the work is not done. And there's nothing more fun than doing that work.