Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, has shared many thoughts on technology, business, and life. He emphasizes the importance of moving fast and breaking things, suggesting that being unafraid of making mistakes is key to success. Zuckerberg also believes deeply in connecting people and sees it as a way to build a stronger community. His approach to innovation highlights the value of taking risks and learning from failures.
Through his journey, Zuckerberg has underscored the significance of having a mission and pursuing it with determination, illustrating how vision can transform the world.
99+ Inspirational Quotes of Mark Zuckerberg
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
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.
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.
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.
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.
You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.
Young people are just smarter.
There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.
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.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
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.
When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.
Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.
If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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 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.
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.
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 don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.
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.
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.
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.
If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.
Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.
Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.
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.
The point of Facebook isn’t the features, it’s the people.
A guy who makes a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.
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.
It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.
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.
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
In a world that’s changing so quickly, you’re guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks.
Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.
VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
Our work to improve privacy continues today.
It’s tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there’s a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we’ve already set out.
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.
If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you’re doing and go fix it.
People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
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.
If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor – the internet may be the best way to get access to health.
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.
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.
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.
It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.
I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.
In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept.
Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.
You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking it apart. But I wasn’t as into that stuff as I was just into how computer programs work…
Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I’ve probably made.
We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
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.
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
If people want change, then they will find a way to get that change. So, whatever technology they may or may not have used was neither a necessary nor sufficient case for getting to the outcome that they got to, but having people who wanted change was.”
In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.
Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook.
AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.
The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it’s more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven’t heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we’re doing.
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.
What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.
I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.
Some of the best ideas throughout the company’s evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it’s an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.
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.
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.
The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.
I think I’ve grown and learned a lot.
If you actually do something you love it’s a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.
I don’t want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.
There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else’s freedom to express themselves.
The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.
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.
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.
The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail.
Why are most chess masters under 30?
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.
I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.
Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.
Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.