Zuckerberg Quotes

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

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder ~ Eli Pariser

Facebook is inherently viral. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. ~ Peter Thiel

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. ~ Eben Moglen

If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It's like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, 'only the paranoid survive. ~ David Kirkpatrick

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

Move fast with stable infrastructure. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

I think anonymity on the internet has to go away, ~ Randi Zuckerberg

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

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst. ~ 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

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it. ~ 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

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world. ~ Sarah Lacy

Ironically, Zuckerberg, who's built a vast fortune on harvesting people's personal information, can't stand to be photographed. ~ Byron Crawford

These Red Pill analyses of ancient texts may seem simplistic and misguided to us. In fact, they are not really producing analyses at all. Their interpretations of the Classics should be approached not as readings of the ancient world, but rather as aspirational representations of the world they wish we inhabited. ~ Donna Zuckerberg

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list. ~ Eduardo Paes

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

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples. ~ Marcus Buckingham

We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed. ~ Eric Ries

While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices. ~ Seth Godin

The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~ Henry Rollins

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

We Don't Build Services to Make Money, We Make Money To Build Services. ~ 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

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

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city. ~ Andrew Keen

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model. ~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?' ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

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. ~ 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

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?' ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Some of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google. ~ Xavier Niel

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

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort. ~ Foster Friess

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges ... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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. ~ 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

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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 and live the mission of the company and ... keep everything else in my life extremely simple. ~ 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

This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned. ~ David Kirkpatrick

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren't social and most things don't use your real identity. We're building toward a web where the default is social. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

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. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

I think I've grown and learned a lot ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

We're running the company to serve more people. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing. ~ Mark Zuckerberg