You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
It’s very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.
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.
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.
Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.
You can be serious without a suit.
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.
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.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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.
We should be building great things that don’t exist.
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.
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.
You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.