Larry Page

Co-founder of Google. Quoted throughout Measure What Matters by John Doerr, who credits Page with consistently pushing Google’s OKR targets higher and articulating two phrases that became embedded in Google’s culture:

• “Uncomfortably excited” — how he wanted employees to feel about their goals.
• “A healthy disregard for the impossible.”

On stretch goals and failure: “If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and miss it, you’ll still achieve something remarkable.” — a principle that only holds inside an environment where individuals are free to fail without judgment.

Sundar Pichai also credits Page with being “always good about upping the goals for the company OKRs.”

Where this appears

• Measure What Matters