Google is one of the greatest companies that exist nowadays. It’s everywhere and anyone with internet access might use it at least once a day.
That great company started with an ambitious project made by two enthusiastic Ph.D. students of Stanford University: Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Nowadays, Google is the top successful company in the world alongside Apple, Microsft, Samsung, and other tech giants.
Both Larry and Sergey have a lot of wisdom and it’s their mindset that made succeed so far. That’s why today we are getting inside their minds by taking a look in some of their best quotes ever.
Here are 22 quotes from Google founders that will put you on the right path!
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“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.”―Larry Page
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“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?”―Larry Page
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“What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!”―Sergey Brin
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“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.”―Larry Page
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“When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley”―Sergey Brin
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“Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines, unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”―Sergey Brin
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“What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!”―Sergey Brin
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“The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.”―Larry Page
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“You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true”―Sergey Brin
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“We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.”―Larry Page
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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.”―Sergey Brin
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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.”―Larry Page
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“I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does”―Sergey Brin
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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.”―Larry Page
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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?” ―Sergey Brin
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“Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.”―Sergey Brin
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Between all these quotes from Google founders, which ones are your favorites?
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