If Your Business Is Static, You're Likely

Always Deliver More Than Expected.

We Have Always Tried To Concentrate On The Long Term, And To Place Bets On Technology We Believe Will Have A Significant Impact Over Time. It's Hard To Imagine Now, But When We Started Google Most People Thought Search Was A Solved Problem And That There Was No Money To Be Made Apart From Some Banner Advertising. We Felt The Exact Opposite: That Search Quality Was Very Poor, And That Awesome User Experiences Would Clearly Make Money.

You Need To Get One Thing Done Well, Or Else You Don't Have Permission To Do Anything Else.

We Understand The Need To Balance Our Short- And Longer-term Needs Because Our Revenue Is The Engine That Funds All Our Innovation. But Over Time, Our Emerging High-usage Products Will Likely Generate Significant New Revenue Streams For Google As Well As For Our Partners, Just As Search Does Today.

We Try To, When You Come To Google, Fulfill That Need That You Have As Quickly As Possible.