Larry Page Quotes

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !

Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed... It is my heritage...to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

Start small and dream big.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.