Mark Zuckerberg on Creativity Quotes

"Move fast and break things was more about the culture of being able to try things and not being afraid of failure."

"People don't care about what you say, they care about what you build."

"Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand."

"You are better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than not doing anything at all."

"Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started."

"We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn't matter what you're passionate about."

"I feel like for the first few years of Facebook, I was just focused on building the product."

"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."

"Instead of building walls, we can help people build bridges."

"The question I ask myself almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'"

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."

"The best way to get started is to just build something."

"You have to believe in yourself and your vision even when no one else does."

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."

"The most important thing that entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about and work on it, but don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it actually works."

"Done is better than perfect."

"The future belongs to the people who believe in the beauty of their dreams and have the discipline to build them."

"Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be across all of them."

"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies."

"Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do."

"The biggest successes come from having the freedom to fail."

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

"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."

"The core of the hacker way is that you can always make something better."

"Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people helped build the Hoover Dam... our generation has the internet."

"It's not about the one 'Eureka' moment. It's about the grind of making it better every single day."

"We're not building services to make money; we're making money to build better services."

"I think as a company, if you can get those two things right—having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff—then you can do pretty well."

"Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."

"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."

"Open source is the best way to build the best software."

"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. But to me, not being just a company means building something that actually makes a really big change in the world."

"In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."