“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.” ThinkingBigsCompanyProtectWeaponsWorkersIronWorking ItGrandfatherMy GrandfatherPipeHunkHow Far We've Come Author:Larry Page
“You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.” PeopleCompanyReturnTreatsFavorsTreating People With Respect Author:Larry Page
“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?” IfsDoeCan DoCompanyExciting Author:Larry Page
“You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” NeedsPersonsIdeasBusinessCompanyEntrepreneurBusiness IdeasBusiness PersonYoung Entrepreneurs Author:Larry Page
“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.” WorldFeelsJobsOpportunityGoalBusinessCompanyLeaderImpactMeaningfulGoogleContributingGreat OpportunityBetter Jobs Author:Larry Page
“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 .” LoveMindWellsWantedStrongGoalCompanyLuckyAmbitionDirectRight ThingUsersAmbitiousGoogleIncentivesGreat LoveDeservingLarge CompaniesAmbitious Goals Author:Larry Page
“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.” IfsWayYearsLooksSaidMightHappensCompanyTechnologyCoupleBrandsThey SaidUnderstated Author:Larry Page
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.” IfsLongInspiringCompanyLong TimeBeachMotivatedLong Time AgoLarrySuccessful Company Author:Larry Page
“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.” IfsRunningBitsResultsCompanyPartnershipBandwidth Author:Larry Page
“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.” PeopleWayNeedsCompanyCome UpInventionBest Way Author:Larry Page
“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.” TryingFeltCompanyFocusMissingStupidSucceedOrganizationRateGuiltyAndroids Author:Larry Page
“Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.” MadeBigsCompanyNeededAreasBig Companies Author:Larry Page
“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.” ShouldStoriesInterestingCompanyProgressBuildingNegativeGreat ThingsGoogle Author:Larry Page
“You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.” PeopleCompanyFocusInnovationInventionPlus Author:Larry Page
“Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.” ThinkingCompanyMissingSucceedForward Thinking Author:Larry Page
“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.” IfsWorldWayBelieveLongDoeImportantCultureTermBusinessCompanyGainsAspectGood ThingsLong TermShort TermShareholders Author:Larry Page
“There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.” DecisionCompany Author:Larry Page
“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.” WorldWantFeelsBelieveCompanyHigherObviousCompetitors Author:Larry Page
