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

The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things, you’re excited to get up in the morning.

Anyone can be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don’t have permission to do anything else.

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.

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.

You have to put in the effort and go above and beyond everything you know. ⁣

A true loss is one where an outcome repeats itself.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Many people think they will get rich overnight with a side hustle but it takes time and consistency to see results.

The more you plan something, the more you start to believe in it.

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.