Anything that has privileges has a responsibility and all people that are clear about their responsibility has to compromise.

We should be building great things that don’t exist.

You can make money doing evil.

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.

It’s quite complicated and sounds circular, but we’ve worked out a way of calculating a website’s importance.

It’s very hard to fail completely if you aim high enough.

Too many rules stifle innovation.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

My goal is for Google to lead, not follow.

In this new wave of technology, you can’t do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

With three workdays a week, we would have more time to relax, for quality of life.

Business leaders need to work to create human capital.

With a good perspective of history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present.

The fruit of wealth is income.

When you are convinced of what to do and what you need to do, it’s not hard to do that.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying it. You are working.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted.

Inertia is in our minds always.