“Deep knowledge from your manager goes a long way toward motivating you. And I have a pretty good capability for that.”

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 way from that.

You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

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.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little ones.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

I like to ask a lot of questions to my employees, to learn about what they do and how they do.

Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

If you have a product that’s really gaining a lot of usage, then it’s probably a good idea.

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.

You can be far more aggressive when you’re making good profits.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

If you’re running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Hire smart people and then get out of their way.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.