Quotes By Larry Page

Our 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.

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

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

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.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Being negative is not how we make progress.

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?

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

You're going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it's going to change how we think about work. There's no way around that. You can't wish it away.

People 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.

Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous.

We 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.

As a precaution, we're making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

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.

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.

As we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

The 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.