“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”
“If you don’t risk anything you risk everything.”
“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.”
“My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
“If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.”
“Find that thing you are super passionate about.”
“Young people are just smarter.”
“There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.”
“You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.”
“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.”
“Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.”
“I’d like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.”
“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.”
“Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.”
“When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.”
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”
“I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”
“Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.”
“I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.”
“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.”
“The trick isn’t adding stuff, it’s taking away.”
“People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.”
“I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
“What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.”
“The point of Facebook isn’t the features, it’s the people.”
“Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A guy who makes a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.”
“Facebook is inherently viral.”
“VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.”
“I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.”
“In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook’s mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.”
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn’t get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can’t imagine it would be much faster for VR.”
“It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.”
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