Larry Page Quotes

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Larry Page

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 26, 1973

Always deliver more than expected.

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Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

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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.

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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

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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.

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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Many 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.

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I can't really comment on rumors.

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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.

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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

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