Top 336 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Zuckerberg

Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Connectivity is a human right.

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

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

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

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

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.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

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?'

The community - more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

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. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

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.

People like to talk about war.

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

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

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.

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

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

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

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

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

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.

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.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

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

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

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.

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.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

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.

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.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.

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.

There are really two core principles at play here. There's giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there's keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We're not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

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

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

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.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.