Top 100 Quotes About Mark Zuckerberg

#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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#3. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Will.i.am

#4. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#5. There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

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#6. 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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#7. Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

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

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#9. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

Kevin Drum

#10. We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.

Mark Zuckerberg

#11. The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.

Vivek Wadhwa

#12. The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Harvey Weinstein

#13. Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.

Craig Ferguson

#14. Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

Mark Zuckerberg

#16. When we were a smaller company, Facebook login was widely adopted, and the growth rate for it has been quite quick. But in order to get to the next level and become more ubiquitous, it needs to be trusted even more.

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

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#18. It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

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#19. Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

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#20. 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.

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#21. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

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#22. 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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#23. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

Fareed Zakaria

#24. If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

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

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#26. The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible,

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#27. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#28. 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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#29. Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.

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#30. I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

Steve Jobs

#31. 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

#32. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#33. The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Peter Thiel

#34. I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

Mark Zuckerberg

#35. Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

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#36. 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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#37. In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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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#40. EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Peter Thiel

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

Mark Zuckerberg

#42. Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.

Seth Godin

#43. If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

Sarah Lacy

#44. 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.

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#45. The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

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#46. 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?'

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#47. 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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#48. After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn't even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

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#49. We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.

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#50. In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

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#51. Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Xavier Niel

#52. 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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#53. Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.

Henry Rollins

#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. We're running the company to serve more people.

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#57. About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

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#58. When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

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

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#60. I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

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#62. 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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#63. There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.

Chris Hardwick

#64. Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Mark Zuckerberg

#65. 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.

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#66. A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder

Eli Pariser

#67. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#68. The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

Eric Ries

#69. A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

Mark Zuckerberg

#70. If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

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#71. Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn't mean that it is going to have the ability to learn new domains or connect different types of information or context to do superhuman things. This is critically important to appreciate.

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

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#74. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#75. 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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#76. It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

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#77. 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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#78. Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

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#79. I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

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#80. A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

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#81. 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.

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#82. In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives ... I really try and live the mission of the company and ... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Mark Zuckerberg

#83. I mostly built stuff that I liked.

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#84. I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

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#85. Connectivity is a human right.

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#86. The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

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#87. The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Mark Zuckerberg

#88. We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

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#89. I never wanted to run a company.To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done. Mark Zuckerberg in The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick

#90. My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

#91. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#92. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.

Mark Zuckerberg

#93. When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

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#94. The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren't social and most things don't use your real identity. We're building toward a web where the default is social.

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#95. 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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#96. Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.

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#97. I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

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#98. 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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#99. It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

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#100. Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

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