Lars Rasmussen Quotes
Born: September 1, 1964
Lars Rasmussen is a modern philosopher of momentum, whose words ignite the spark between intention and achievement. Rejecting passive inspiration, his core philosophy champions the raw, transformative power of decisive action. He argues that motivation is not a feeling to be awaited, but a muscle to be exercised through deliberate, often uncomfortable, steps. His quotes resonate deeply because they strip away excuses, offering a clear-eyed, compassionate roadmap for those paralyzed by doubt. Rasmussen’s legacy is a call to arms for the hesitant, a testament that the greatest clarity is found not in thought, but in the doing.
Lars Rasmussen Quotes (18)
"It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company."
— Lars Rasmussen"We are all going to be using search many, many times a day, every day of our lives, forever."
— Lars Rasmussen"Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience."
— Lars Rasmussen"You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world."
— Lars Rasmussen"Some people are less comfortable than others using their personal Facebook in the work context. With Facebook at Work, you get the option of completely separating the two."
— Lars Rasmussen"Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication?"
— Lars Rasmussen"We believe we can put out the best products if our engineering workforce has the same characteristics as our user."
— Lars Rasmussen"We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient."
— Lars Rasmussen"Both search and social have these distribution angles to them. Before social, if you wanted any sort of traffic on the web, it had to come from search."
— Lars Rasmussen"When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup."
— Lars Rasmussen"The problem we encountered with Wave at Google was that we became very isolated from the rest of the company. And in the time that it took us to build Wave, the rest of the company changed direction. I think that has a lot to do with why the product failed."
— Lars Rasmussen"When you look at my life, I spent a lot of time communicating and collaborating and co-ordinating."
— Lars Rasmussen"I get lost in my own house - and it's not even a big house."
— Lars Rasmussen"In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people."
— Lars Rasmussen"If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search."
— Lars Rasmussen"So, it was a tough decision to leave Facebook, but it was definitely the right decision. I haven't regretted it at all."
— Lars Rasmussen"I do believe that you can achieve more if you're willing to take risks."
— Lars Rasmussen"There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done."
— Lars Rasmussen