Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Larry Page

Building

Story

Change

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies. "

" 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. "

" I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus. "

" I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 can't really comment on rumors. "

" 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. "

" If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Larry Page

Sense

Everyone

" 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. "

" My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company. "

" 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. "

" I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that. "

Larry Page

Really

Samsung

" For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security. "