The document compiles 20 quotes from Larry Page emphasizing the need for revolutionary change in technology, the importance of leadership in fostering opportunities, and the necessity of combining invention with commercialization. Page discusses his vision for Google and the broader impact of technology on society, highlighting the value of working on ambitious projects and innovation. Key themes include the significance of clean energy, transportation improvements, and the idea that small groups can effect significant change.

1. 20
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Larry
Page
20
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from
Larry
Page
20
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from
Larry
Page
20
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Larry
PagecompiledbyJamesAltucher.com

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

3. “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.”

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

5. “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.”

6. “Invention is not enough. Tesla
invented the electric power we
use, but he struggled to get it out
to people. You have to combine
both things: invention and
innovation focus, plus the
company that can commercialize
things and get them to people.”

7. “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.”

8. “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.”

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

10. “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.”

11. "What is the one sentence
summary of how you
change the world? Always
work hard on something
uncomfortably exciting!"

12. "The idea that everyone should
slavishly work so they do
something inefficiently so
they keep their job – that just
doesn’t make any sense to me.
That can’t be the right answer."

13. “I used to have this debate with
Steve Jobs, and he would always
say, 'You guys are doing too much
stuff.' He did a good job of doing
one or two things really well. We'd
like to have a bigger impact on the
world by doing more things.”

14. “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.”

15. "I don't think we're going to
run out of important things
to do, compared with the
resources that we have. There
are many, many problems in
the world that need solving."

16. “I think 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. In fact, there are so
few people this crazy that I feel
like I know them all by first name.”

17. “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.”

18. “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.”

19. “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.”

20. “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.”

21. "You need to invent things
and you need to get them
to people. Obviously, the
best way we've come up
with doing that is
through companies."

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