“I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.”

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.

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.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

The hardest thing about the business is minding your own.

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.