Larry Page Quotes

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

I will say I would leave many of the decisions of some of the things you mentioned to the generals, the admirals, the people on top, and we get some of the - the Congressmen just mentioned to me and I - I think it's true 100 percent, you get your top enlisted people in that and you have some discussions with some of these top enlisted people who know it better than probably anybody.

I think there has to be a recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now, I mean, the business has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in nano seconds basically.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

Keep your money in the first place. Let's make our companies competitive and let's make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what's good for Washington carve outs.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.