Mark Zuckerberg
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. And that’s what this company is.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: People
When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.Collection: Thinking
Our work to improve privacy continues today.Collection: Today
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.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: People
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.Collection: Kind
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.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Commitment
In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.Collection: People
A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.Collection: Guy
Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.Collection: Real
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.Collection: Long
Young people are just smarter.Collection: People
Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably madeCollection: Running
People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.Collection: Thinking
Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Inspirational
There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business. We all know you don't get successful just by having a good idea or working hard. You get successful by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up, instead of having the time to learn how to code. If I didn't know that I was gonna be fine if Facebook didn't work out, then I wouldn't be standing up here today. And if we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Thinking
Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.Collection: Technology
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: People
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Real
People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?Collection: Careers
I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.Collection: Might
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.Collection: Thinking
We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."Collection: Moving
The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.Collection: Stuff
Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.Collection: Mistake
We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.Collection: Meaningful
I mostly built stuff that I liked.Collection: Stuff
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.Collection: Integrity
I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.Collection: Successful
So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.Collection: Mistake
If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.Collection: Country
Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing.Collection: Matter
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Unique
I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.Collection: People
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.Collection: Hands
In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.Collection: Risk
And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.Collection: People