Larry Page Quotes

"If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I can't really comment on rumors."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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