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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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“If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”

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“Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.”

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“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!”

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“You can be serious without a suit”

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

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

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“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.”

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

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“I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.”

Millions Plus Followers Google

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.”

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“Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.”

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“Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.”

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“Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.”

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“If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.”

Ifs Issues Static

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“You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.”

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

Thinking Company Missing Succeed Forward Thinking

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“People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.”

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

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“It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.”

Ifs Hard Enough Failing Aim Aim High

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“We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.”

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

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“We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But 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.”

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“...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.”

Important Worry Harm Privacy Online Versus

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“There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.”

Decision Company

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

Ifs Crazy Wrong Things

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“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.”

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“We should be building great things that don't exist.”

Should Building Great Things

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“The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.”

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“We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.”

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“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”

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“Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.”

People Should Hard Can Do Technology Hard Work

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“One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.”

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“Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.”

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“Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.”

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

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“As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.”

Machines Heavy Legs Tiny Precaution

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“For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.”

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“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.”

Knows Kind Computer Mess Where You Are Computing

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“We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.”

Evil Money Making Money Always Believe

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

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