Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

Young people are just smarter.

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

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

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.

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

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why are most chess masters under 30?

You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

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

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

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death 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.

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

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

I mostly built stuff that I liked.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Our work to improve privacy continues today.

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

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.

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

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.

Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.

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.

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.