Mark Zuckerberg quotes

Born
May 14, 1984 White Plains, New York, U.S.

Occupation
Entrepreneur.

Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.

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

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

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

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.
– Mark Zuckerberg

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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

We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don’t check in code anymore.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

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.
– Mark Zuckerberg

We’re running the company to serve more people.
– 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

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

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

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.
– Mark Zuckerberg

Move fast with stable infrastructure.
– Mark Zuckerberg

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.
– Mark Zuckerberg

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
– Mark Zuckerberg

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
– Mark Zuckerberg

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

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.
– Mark Zuckerberg

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’
– Mark Zuckerberg

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.
– Mark Zuckerberg