Larry Page Quotes

“Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.”

“Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.”

“As a society, on the larger questions we have, we're not making reasonable progress.”

“Good ideas are always crazy until they're not.”

“Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.”

“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 didn’t start out building a search engine. I just said, “Oh, the links on the Web are probably interesting. Why don’t we try doing something with that?” I was pretty lucky that it was a useful thing to do.”

“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.”

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

“If you have a product that’s really gaining a lot of usage, then it’s probably a good idea.”

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”

“If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.”

“It is easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.”

“it’s very hard to fail completely if you aim high enough.”

“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.”

“Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. You should try to do things that most people would not do.”

“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.”

“The increasing volume of information is just more opportunity to build better answers to questions. The more information you have, the better.”

“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.”

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

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