Larry Page
Larry Page
Lawrence "Larry" Pageis an American computer scientist and an Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc. with Sergey Brin in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth26 March 1973
CityEast Lansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
jobs people pushing
I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.
thinking missing succeed
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
dream crazy competition
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.
people favors return
You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.
thinking iron grandfather
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.
believe want world
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.
simple research want
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.
hard-work exciting hard
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting
lazy world
Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.
goal long innovation
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.
crazy ifs wrong-things
If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.
technology reality knowing
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.
inspirational silly college
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.
failing enough aim-high
It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.