66+ Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

Mark Zuckerberg is a media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist from the US.

He attended Harvard University. In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Launched Facebook. He is well known for being one of the most prosperous entrepreneurs in the IT sector.

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Here is a list of Famous Mark Zuckerberg quotes

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community."

"They just can't wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things."

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

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

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

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

"There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated."

"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."

"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."

"Find that thing you are super passionate about."

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

"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."

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

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

"The trick isn’t adding stuff; it’s taking away."

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

"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."

"The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?"

"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… I really try to live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple."

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

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

"We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services."

"Young people are just smarter."

"Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges."

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

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"One of the things that I do focus on at Facebook is making sure the culture is very friendly and that people hang out. So instead of having 20% of people’s time working on projects, I make people hang out with each other."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 site, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the site."

"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."

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

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

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"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."

"In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"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."

"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."

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"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."

"Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone."

"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."

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

"A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising."

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

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

"Ideas don’t come out fully formed, they only become clearer as you work on them. You just have to get started."

"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."

"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."

"Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend."

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

"My goal was never to just create a company. It was to build something that actually makes a really big change in the world."