Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”

“Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.”

“Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.”

“By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.”

“Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.”

“Find that thing you are super passionate about.”

“Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.”

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

“I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.”

“I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”

“If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.”

“If you actually do something you love it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.”

“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.”

“In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives.”

“Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.”

“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”

“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.”

“My number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.”

“Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.”

“People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.”

“People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.”

“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”

“So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure.”

“The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.”

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better and that nothing is ever complete.”

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’”

“The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.”

“There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice, and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.”

“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.”