Mark Zuckerberg on Focus Quotes

"Focus on building the best possible experience."

"You have to be very clear about what you are trying to do. If you aren't, you'll get pulled in a million different directions."

"Focusing on the mission and building great products is what matters. Everything else is secondary."

"I'm really focused on open source, which is, I'm not sure exactly where it would fit on the continuum, but my theory of this is that what you want to prevent is one organization from getting way more advanced and powerful than everyone else." "Mark Zuckerberg talks Apple vs. Meta Headset Wars, AI Innovations & Raising Cattle", on Morning Brew Daily, found on DeepCast (16 February 2024)"

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

"Stay focused and keep shipping."

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

"I think a lot of people think efficiency is just about doing things faster, but it's really about doing the right things."

"If you want to build something great, you have to focus on the long term."

"Productivity is about the output per hour, and you increase that by removing distractions."

"You should focus on the problems that you are most uniquely positioned to solve."

"Focusing on the mission is what allows us to make the long-term decisions that are right for the community."

"The most important thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

"I think that focus is one of the most important things for any company that wants to be successful."

"Focus on the mission. If you do that, the rest will follow."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do and stay focused on it despite the noise."

"Building something that matters requires a level of focus that most people aren't willing to give."

"I'm here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction from the main mission."

"Strategy is about making choices. If you try to do everything, you end up doing nothing well."

"Focus is the key to unlocking the potential of any great idea. Without it, you just have a lot of unfinished projects."

"Understanding who you serve is always a very important problem, and it only gets harder the more people that you serve. We try to pay a lot of attention to this by a combination of very rigorous quantitative and qualitative feedback. But if you’re serving 1.2 billion people, it’s very hard. nytimes.com"

"Our goal is to build the best experience for people, and that requires intense focus on the details."

"We need to stay focused on the most important problems even when they are hard."

"Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on."

"The most important thing is to stay focused on the mission, not the money. If you do that, the money will follow."

"I'm more interested in the long-term value we're creating than the short-term fluctuations of the market."

"I'm very focused on the long-term, and I think that's the only way to build something that's really meaningful."