Top 100 Mark Zuckerberg Quotes
#1. The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.
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#2. I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.
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#3. We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage ... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.
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#4. I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
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#5. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.
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#6. Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.
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#7. I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
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#8. The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible,
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#9. The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.
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#10. 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.
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#11. A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept.
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#13. 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.
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#14. In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.
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#15. I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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#16. 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.
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#17. In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.
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#18. VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.
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#19. 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.
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#20. About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
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#21. 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.
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#22. If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.
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#23. A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.
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#24. It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.
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#28. Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.
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#31. I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.
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#32. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.
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#33. Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.
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#34. I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
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#35. Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.
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#36. When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire.
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#37. 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.
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#38. We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.
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#39. Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.
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#40. My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
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#41. 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.
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#42. The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
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#43. When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
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#44. I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we're really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.
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#45. If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.
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#50. The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing.
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#51. Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.
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#52. 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.
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#53. We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.
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#58. When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
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#59. I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
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#60. 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.
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#61. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers.
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#62. Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.
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#63. At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.
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#64. Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this.
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#65. 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.
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#68. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories ... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
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#69. In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept.
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#70. The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.
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#71. Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
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#72. In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.
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#73. 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.
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#74. I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.
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#75. Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.'
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#79. There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
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#80. I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges ... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.
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#81. There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
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#82. People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.
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#83. I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.
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#84. People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?
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#85. If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation.
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#86. Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
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#87. 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.
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#88. Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.
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#89. I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
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#91. Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.
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#92. 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.
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#93. We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.
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#94. What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.
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#95. The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.
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#96. I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
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#97. If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.
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#98. I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
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#99. The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.
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#100. Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
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