It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
I am a mild introvert. But I have learned to be a very successful extrovert because if you want impact, you have to work with people.
In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.
After taking a two-year sabbatical to spend time with my wife and travel the world, I'm excited to join the Twitter Board and help the company advance its mission.
People see the speed; people see the innovation, the relentless innovation, and that's what Google is about.
Working at Google is a privilege, nothing less.
We all know that mobile's going to change the world.
When our kids are asked by their friends about the success of the longevity of our marriage, they simply joke that Tamar and I have spent so little time together that 'it's really too early to tell' if our marriage will, in fact, succeed.
People die at 100 years old now. When I was a kid, people died at 67.
If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.
With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?
The surprising question we get is, 'How many people telecommute at Google?' And our answer is, 'As few as possible.'
People think, 'Well, because you're at Google, you can work from anywhere.' Yes, you can work from anywhere, but many just commute to offices... Working from the office is really important.
There is something magical about sharing meals.
It makes no sense to make people drive cars.
We could auto-replenish as you take things out of the fridge. Why not?
Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.
People should understand that Google changes every day.
There is an obsessive focus on speed at Google.
Google will continue to be the place of choice, and we wanted to signal that very clearly to our employees.
