Best Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

We're running the company to serve more people.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

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

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

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

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

You are better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than not doing anything at all.

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.

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.

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

I think as a company, if you can get those 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.

I mean, the real story is actually pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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

Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.

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

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.

Our society needs more heroes who are scientists, researchers, and engineers. We need to celebrate and reward the people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity and work to improve people's lives.

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.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place.

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.

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.

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.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

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

We don't build services to make money, we make money to build better services.

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

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.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'

If people want change, then they will find a way to get that change. So, whatever technology they may or may not have used was neither a necessary nor sufficient case for getting to the outcome that they got to, but having people who wanted change was.

Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each other that that is somehow isolating. But humans are fundamentally social. So I think in reality, if a technology doesn't actually help us socially understand each other better, it isn't going to catch on and succeed.

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

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.

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.

Stuff like photos and events and groups - we've built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations.

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.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it's on the web, or mobile, or other devices.

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

[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.

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.

Facebook is inherently viral.

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

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

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.