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Larry Page, born on March 26, 1973, is an accomplished business magnate from the United States. He is renowned for his profound understanding and innovation in internet search technology and is one of the co-founders of Google.

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“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.”

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“You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.”

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“You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.”

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“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.”

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“The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.”

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“The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”

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“You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.”

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“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?”

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“We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.”

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“We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.”

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“You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.”

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“The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.”

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“We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.”

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“I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.”

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“If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.”

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“Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".”

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“The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.”

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

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“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.”

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“I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.”

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

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“If we are not trusted, we have no business.”

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“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.”

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“You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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“Always deliver more than expected.”

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“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.”

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“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.”

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“As we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000.”

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“As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.”

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“Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It's hardly surprising mobile search queries - and mobile commerce - are growing dramatically across the world.”

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“Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided.”

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“Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.”

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“We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.”

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .”

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“I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.”

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“It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.”

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“Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.”

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“Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.”

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“Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.”

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“We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.”

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“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.”

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“You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.”

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“Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.”

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“Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.”

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

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

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“We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.”

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Born: March 26, 1973
Known for: Business magnate
Quotes: 96

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