Larry Page on think big

From "In the Plex"

“Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail
completely,” he says. “That’s the thing that people don’t get.” Page
always thought about that. When people proposed a short-term
solution, Page’s instinct was to think long term. There would eventually
be a joke among Googlers that Page “went to the future and came
back to tell us about it.”