Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

"The most important thing is to keep a very close-knit team. You have to be able to trust the people you work with."

"We are building the social infrastructure for the future."

"The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is about using our wealth to improve human potential and promote equality."

"Efficiency is a mindset of continuous improvement and questioning the status quo."

"You have to be very disciplined about how you spend your time every single day."

"I think that's the best way to learn—to just dive into something and start building it."

"Done is better than perfect."

"A lot of people think that the way you build a big company is by having a great idea, but it's really about the people you have around you."

"When you have too many people on a project, the overhead of communication exceeds the value of the work."

"Success comes from the freedom to fail."

"If you're always under the pressure of having to succeed, you're never going to have the confidence to try the big things."

"We're making a long-term bet that immersive, virtual and augmented reality will become a part of people's daily lives."

"Focus on building the best possible experience."

"The goal of the company is to help people share and connect."

"I believe that the future is built by people who are willing to focus on the hard problems that others ignore."

"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."

"We exist at the intersection of technology and humanity."

"Issues about violating people’s privacy don't seem to be surmountable, I’m not willing to risk insulting anyone. "Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board" The Harvard Crimson (November 19, 2003)"

"Zuckersberg's Facemash (a variant of Am I Hot or Not?), which ranked photos of students according to attractiveness, led to the possibility he might have to leave Harvard for a time or permanently. He was not sanctioned by the Administrative Board."

"Coding is like writing. It’s a creative process."

"True success comes from having the freedom to fail. If I had to support my family growing up instead of having time to code, I wouldn't be here."

"Don't let anyone tell you to change who you are."

"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."

"We are focused on the long term, and that means investing our capital wisely in breakthrough technologies."

"Our generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation. We need to find new ways to create wealth for everyone."

"You need to have the discipline to say no to the hundred other good ideas that there are."

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to do anything innovative."

"If you're always doing the things that are easy, you're not going to be doing the things that are most valuable."

"The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating change."

"The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away the things that don't matter."

"We want our engineers to spend more time building and less time in meetings or navigating bureaucracy."

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"The Year of Efficiency has helped us see which projects are truly essential to our mission."