Mark Zuckerberg Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Mark Zuckerberg
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts. — Mark Zuckerberg
The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. — Mark Zuckerberg
In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes — Mark Zuckerberg
If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation. — Mark Zuckerberg
It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me. — Mark Zuckerberg
I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do. — Mark Zuckerberg
Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January. — Mark Zuckerberg
The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions ... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them. — Mark Zuckerberg
Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner. — Mark Zuckerberg
Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this. — Mark Zuckerberg
You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking it apart. But I wasn't as into that stuff as I was just into how computer programs work.. — Mark Zuckerberg
If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out. — Mark Zuckerberg
The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future. — Mark Zuckerberg
I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world ... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers. — Mark Zuckerberg
We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change — Mark Zuckerberg
Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone. — Mark Zuckerberg
We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world
and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General. — Mark Zuckerberg
When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire. — Mark Zuckerberg
In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well. — Mark Zuckerberg
The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. — Mark Zuckerberg
Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together. — Mark Zuckerberg
We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money. — Mark Zuckerberg
When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg
We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough. I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes. — Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. — Mark Zuckerberg
Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership. — Mark Zuckerberg
We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open. — Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is all about information and helping people share it. — Mark Zuckerberg
When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native ... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us. — Mark Zuckerberg
Move fast with stable infrastructure. — Mark Zuckerberg
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both. — Mark Zuckerberg
People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality. — Mark Zuckerberg
I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that. — Mark Zuckerberg
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. — Mark Zuckerberg
When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all ... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too. — Mark Zuckerberg
In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open. — Mark Zuckerberg
There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come. — Mark Zuckerberg
There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all the information open on Facebook, and that's completely false. There are big buckets of information that we recommend that you share with only your friends privately. Then some of the more basic information, we recommend that that's visible to everyone. — Mark Zuckerberg
We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority. — Mark Zuckerberg
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard. — Mark Zuckerberg
There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them. — Mark Zuckerberg
Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth. — Mark Zuckerberg
People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done? — Mark Zuckerberg
Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy. — Mark Zuckerberg
Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience. — Mark Zuckerberg
I actually remember very specifically the night that I launched Facebook at Harvard. I used to go out to get pizza with a friend who I did all my computer science homework with. And I remember talking to him and saying I am so happy we have this at Harvard because now our community can be connected but one day someone is going to build this for the world. — Mark Zuckerberg
If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems. — Mark Zuckerberg
I'm trying to make the world a more open place. — Mark Zuckerberg
What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism. — Mark Zuckerberg
You grow more when you get more people's perspective. — Mark Zuckerberg
Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet. — Mark Zuckerberg
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world. — Mark Zuckerberg
I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome. — Mark Zuckerberg
One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren't all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities. — Mark Zuckerberg
I know it sounds corny, but I'd love to improve people's lives, especially socially ... Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It's a ten-to-fifteen-year thing. — Mark Zuckerberg
A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept. — Mark Zuckerberg
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. — Mark Zuckerberg
One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem. — Mark Zuckerberg
We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn't where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, 'Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?' And we actually agreed with that. — Mark Zuckerberg
We're a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones - apart from the iPhone - can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we'd only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn't do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into 'Facebook phones.' That's what Facebook Home is. — Mark Zuckerberg
We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do. — Mark Zuckerberg
What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that's a problem that's probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that's actually within the range of affordability. — Mark Zuckerberg
I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits. — Mark Zuckerberg
People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising. — Mark Zuckerberg
Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on. — Mark Zuckerberg
It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company. — Mark Zuckerberg
People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things. — Mark Zuckerberg
Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can. — Mark Zuckerberg
Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification. — Mark Zuckerberg
I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do. — Mark Zuckerberg
I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test. — Mark Zuckerberg
Connectivity is a human right. — Mark Zuckerberg
When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference. — Mark Zuckerberg
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us. — Mark Zuckerberg
I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either. — Mark Zuckerberg
Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy. — Mark Zuckerberg
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up. — Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. — Mark Zuckerberg
When we were a smaller company, Facebook login was widely adopted, and the growth rate for it has been quite quick. But in order to get to the next level and become more ubiquitous, it needs to be trusted even more. — Mark Zuckerberg
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore. — Mark Zuckerberg
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. — Mark Zuckerberg
If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing. — Mark Zuckerberg
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed. — Mark Zuckerberg
Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something. — Mark Zuckerberg
The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing. — Mark Zuckerberg
We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like. — Mark Zuckerberg
If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health. — Mark Zuckerberg