Mark Zuckerberg on Creativity Quotes

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Done is better than perfect."

"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."

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

"I’m here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."

"The metaverse is the next frontier in connecting people, just like social networking was when we got started."

"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."

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

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

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

"You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years."

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

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

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

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

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