Just about everyone in the western world knows of Mark Zuckerberg – one of the world’s richest men who co-founded Facebook.
What many people don’t know is that he’s let out some very motivational business quotes over that time, and I’ve found the best out there.
Best Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg
1. Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.
2. Our society needs more heroes who are scientists, researchers, and engineers. We need to celebrate and reward the people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity and work to improve people’s lives.
3. Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.
4. People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.
5. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.
6. Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff you are not moving fast enough.
7. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
8. Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.
9. 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.
10. By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
11. The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?
12. We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about.
13. 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.
14. In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing, and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner.
15. My number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
16. Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.
17. Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand.
18. It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
22. My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being “just” a company means to me is building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
23. 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.
24. 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 site, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the site.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
28. The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
