Mark Zuckerberg

Entrepreneur

1984-05-14

American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook and later led Meta Platforms as chairman and chief executive. He launched Facebook while studying at Harvard in 2004. He is also a co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg

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.
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Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.
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Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.
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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.
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I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
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Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
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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.'
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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.
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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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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.
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