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

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.

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

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.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that’s somewhat correct.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

You can be serious without a suit.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.

Always deliver more than expected.

Sergey and I founded Google because we’re super optimistic about the potential for technology to make the world a better place.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

The best people want to work the big challenges.

I would rather have people think we’re confused than let our competitors know what we’re going to do.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

If you will be faithful to a few things, you will someday become the ruler over many things.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.