Top 100 Quotes About Zuckerberg
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Yuri Milner
#4. The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.
Vivek Wadhwa
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
Tom Hodgkinson
#8. This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned.
David Kirkpatrick
#9. Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.
Ken Auletta
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#13. The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.
Eben Moglen
#14. Sadly, Asia never cared, with the unenviable consequence that today's Zuckerberg's brand, Facebook, enjoys more copyright and legal protection than the entire intellectual output of China in the last 3,000 years.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#15. I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.
Steve Jobs
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
Seth Godin
#19. 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
#20. Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
Xavier Niel
#21. 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
#22. Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.
Jay Samit
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.
Warren Buffett
#29. Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.
Sarah Lacy
#30. Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash 'for fun'. Even today, Facebook believe that 'done is better than perfect'.
Max McKeown
#31. It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
Marcus Buckingham
#32. In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#33. Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.
Andrew Keen
#34. He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.
David Kirkpatrick
#35. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!
Jimmy Fallon
#36. When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#37. Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
Kara Swisher
#38. Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.
Sarah Lacy
#39. In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.
Amity Shlaes
#40. Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.
Eduardo Paes
#41. Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.
Lindsey Kelk
#42. Ironically, Zuckerberg, who's built a vast fortune on harvesting people's personal information, can't stand to be photographed.
Byron Crawford
#43. Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.
Douglas Rushkoff
#44. Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
Foster Friess
#45. Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
Kara Swisher
#46. What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's Man of the Year.
Julian Assange
#47. Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#48. When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.
Steven Bochco
#49. Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.
Marc Andreessen
#50. The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you.
Robert Scoble
#51. Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'
Alan Sugar
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#56. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#57. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#58. If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
Mark Zuckerberg
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#62. By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
#63. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#64. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#65. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#66. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.
Mark Zuckerberg
#67. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#68. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#69. I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
Mark Zuckerberg
#70. The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible,
Mark Zuckerberg
#71. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#72. Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.
Mark Zuckerberg
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.
Mark Zuckerberg
#77. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#78. In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.
Mark Zuckerberg
#79. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#80. I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
Mark Zuckerberg
#82. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#83. The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'
Mark Zuckerberg
#84. 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
#85. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#86. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#87. We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.
Mark Zuckerberg
#88. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#89. In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.
Mark Zuckerberg
#90. VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.
Mark Zuckerberg
#91. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#93. About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
Mark Zuckerberg
#94. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#95. I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.
Mark Zuckerberg
#96. There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.
Mark Zuckerberg
#97. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#98. Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
Mark Zuckerberg
#99. 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.
Mark Zuckerberg
#100. 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
