Facebook- "expressing who you are"
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
I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
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
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
Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.
Mark Zuckerberg
The thing I really care about is the mission; making the world open.
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
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Mark Zuckerberg
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
Mark Zuckerberg
I just wish nobody made a film about me while I am still alive.
Mark Zuckerberg
The social web can´t exist until you are your real self online.
Mark Zuckerberg
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
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
The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.
Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
Banks and lenders just need to be more responsible about whom they give credit cards to.
Mark Zuckerberg
We’re running the company to serve more people.
Mark Zuckerberg
And then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information. People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
Mark Zuckerberg
A lot of companies can go off course because of corporate pressures… I don’t know what we are going to be building five years from now. I don’t know what we are going to be building three years from now.
Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
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.
Mark Zuckerberg
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.
Mark Zuckerberg
We view it as our role in the system to constantly be innovating and be updating what our system is to reflect what the current social norms are.
Mark Zuckerberg
A lot of companies would be trapped by the conventions and their legacies of what they’ve built, doing a privacy change – doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of thing that a lot of companies would do. But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner’s mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it.
Mark Zuckerberg
We’re going to go public eventually, because that’s the contract that we have with our investors and our employees.
Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
Thanks to all of these efforts, our business is doing really well, and we’re on track to create a nice self-sustaining business, and because of this, a lot of companies and firms have approached us about investing in the company.
Mark Zuckerberg (2009)
I guess we could. If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10% of the pages and the average for search is about 20% taken up with ads. That’s the simplest thing we could do but we aren’t like that; we make enough money. Right, I mean we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.
Mark Zuckerberg
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
Mark Zuckerberg
It’s not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues; the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is not just an attractive idea to me.
Mark Zuckerberg
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark Zuckerberg
I was watching an interview with Steve Jobs the other day, in which he said that “In order to be doing something like this, you have to really, really like what you’re doing, because otherwise it just doesn’t make sense.” The demands and the amount of work that it takes to put something like (Facebook) into place, it’s just so much that if you weren’t completely into what you were doing and you didn’t think it was an important thing, then it would be irrational to spend that much time on it.
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
The question isn’t, “What do we want to know about people?”, It’s, “What do people want to tell about themselves?”
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
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
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Mark Zuckerberg (angående Spotify)
(Google) certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg
Until women are as ambitious as men, they´re not going to achieve as much as men.
Mark Zuckerberg
We wanted to build a new communications medium. We knew we’d be successful when we were no longer cool – when we were such an integral part of people’s’ lives that they took us for granted.
Mark Zuckerberg
Part of our company mission was to be the coolest company in Silicon Valley.
Sean Parker
Thefacebook was very user-friendly and easy to keep using. It was hypnotic.
Sean Parker
