Larry Page Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

I can’t really comment on rumors.

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

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.