Larry Page quotes
Born
March 26, 1973, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation
Computer scientist, Internet entrepreneur.
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.
You can be serious without a suit.
– Larry Page
Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.
– Larry Page
Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.
– Larry Page
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
– Larry Page
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
– Larry Page
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.
– Larry Page
Always deliver more than expected.
– Larry Page
If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.
– Larry Page
Almost everyone who has had an idea that’s somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they’re insane.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
– Larry Page
We should be building great things that don’t exist.
– Larry Page
You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.
– Larry Page
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
I can’t really comment on rumors.
– Larry Page
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
– Larry Page
It’s very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.
– Larry Page
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.
– Larry Page
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.
– Larry Page
We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
– Larry Page