Best Mark Zuckerberg Quotes, Thoughts and Networth
Before we read some of the best, inspirational and powerful quotes by Mark Zuckerberg, let’s also know a little bit more about him.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Born: 14 May 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is famous for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.
He also co-founded and is a board member of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot
His Net worth (2020) – Approx $71.7 billion
Best Mark Zuckerberg Quotes on Life, Success, Love and Entrepreneurship
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. 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. – Mark Zuckerberg
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. – Mark Zuckerberg
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 the founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg Quotes
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. – Mark Zuckerberg
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 the want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference. – Mark Zuckerberg
No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them. – Mark Zuckerberg
The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself. – Mark Zuckerberg
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
Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content. – Mark Zuckerberg
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.’ – Mark Zuckerberg
For the first time, we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money. – Mark Zuckerberg
Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for. – Mark Zuckerberg
I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
Our philosophy is that we care about people first. – Mark Zuckerberg
Just take terrorism, for example. We have a team of more than 200 people working on counterterrorism. I mean, that’s pretty intense. That’s not like what people think about what Facebook is. – Mark Zuckerberg
Connectivity is a human right. – Mark Zuckerberg
I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then. – Mark Zuckerberg
Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on. – Mark Zuckerberg
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. – Mark Zuckerberg
If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields. – Mark Zuckerberg
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. – Mark Zuckerberg
I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist. – Mark Zuckerberg
People love photos. Photos originally weren’t that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality. – Mark Zuckerberg
Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well. – Mark Zuckerberg
I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test. – Mark Zuckerberg
I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken. – Mark Zuckerberg
We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 per cent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‘Facebook phones.’ That’s what Facebook Home is. – Mark Zuckerberg
You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years. – Mark Zuckerberg
Move fast with stable infrastructure. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that. – Mark Zuckerberg
Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them. – Mark Zuckerberg
If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code. – Mark Zuckerberg
Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. – Mark Zuckerberg
It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company. – Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community. – Mark Zuckerberg
I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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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. – Mark Zuckerberg
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently. – Mark Zuckerberg
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed. – Mark Zuckerberg
We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 per cent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us. – Mark Zuckerberg
I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do. – Mark Zuckerberg
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
There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function. – Mark Zuckerberg
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. – Mark Zuckerberg
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 understandings where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there. – Mark Zuckerberg
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. – Mark Zuckerberg
The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them. – Mark Zuckerberg
I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal. – Mark Zuckerberg
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us. – Mark Zuckerberg
The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’ – Mark Zuckerberg
On engagement, we’re already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They’re more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week. – Mark Zuckerberg
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, 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. – Mark Zuckerberg
You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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
We’re running the company to serve more people. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
Our strategy is very horizontal. We’re trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we’re trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it’s on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one. – Mark Zuckerberg
I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. – Mark Zuckerberg
Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it’s kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years – maybe even sooner. – Mark Zuckerberg
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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
I’m trying to make the world a more open place. – Mark Zuckerberg
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses that are taking. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication. – Mark Zuckerberg
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. – Mark Zuckerberg
I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‘Wow, these networks have a lot of information.’ – Mark Zuckerberg
Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. – Mark Zuckerberg
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
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
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