Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.

On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

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

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

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 don't risk anything you risk everything

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

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

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

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.

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.