“The “Be good” concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.”

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.

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.

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.

If you’re looking to become an entrepreneur then don’t waste your time going to university or business school – just get on and do it.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

The best people want to work the big challenges.

If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.