Mark zuckerberg quotes

I don't want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

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.

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.

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.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

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

There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business. We all know you don't get successful just by having a good idea or working hard. You get successful by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up, instead of having the time to learn how to code. If I didn't know that I was gonna be fine if Facebook didn't work out, then I wouldn't be standing up here today. And if we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.

Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.

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.

A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

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.

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.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

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

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

Our work to improve privacy continues today.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

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. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

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

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

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.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.

I mostly built stuff that I liked.

We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.

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

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 primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.

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.

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

In a recent survive of Millennials around the world asking what most defines our identity, the most popular wasn't nationality, ethnicity or religion. It was "citizen of the world." That's a big deal. Every generation expands the circle of people we consider one of us. And in our generation, that now includes the whole world. This is the struggle of our time. The forces of freedom, openness, and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism, and nationalism - forces for the flow of knowledge, trade, and immigration, against those who would slow them down.

Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

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.

Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.

We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.

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

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.

I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

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

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

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.

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

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.

We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make all these businesses that integrate with us run more effectively. I think if we stay focused on doing that, that's really the main thing that we need to do.

[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.

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

The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

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

The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.

We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, 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.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.

You can be so bad at so many things... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable... you get through all that stuff.

We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we really look for when we’re interviewing people is what they’ve shown an initiative to do on their own.

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.

If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.

You grow more when you get more people's perspective.

It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

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.

People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.

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.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

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.

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

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.

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.

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.

In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

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 look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

Young people are just smarter.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

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.

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.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

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.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

The question I ask myself like almost everyday is 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

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 friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

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.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

If you don't risk anything you risk everything