Mark Zuckerberg on Planning Quotes

"I think as a company, if you can get those two things right—having a clear direction and bringing in great people—then you can do pretty well."

"The most important thing is to just keep learning and keep iterating."

"You need a clear vision, but you also need a plan to get there one step at a time."

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

"The best way to predict the future is to build it."

"The strategy is to build a platform that allows other people to build things."

"Our plan is to continue investing heavily in the future of the metaverse."

"The roadmap for the next ten years is about building the technology to help people connect in new ways."

"We are a mission-driven company. We have a social mission that we care about."

"The goal of our planning process is to ensure we are working on the right things for the long term."

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

"You have to be very clear about what the goal is and then you have to be very flexible about how you get there."

"We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."

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

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

"The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration."

"Success comes from the freedom to fail."

"Our mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."

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

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

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

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

"We’re focused on the long term. We’re not trying to optimize for the next quarter."

"I believe that over time, people will be able to do almost anything they can imagine in the metaverse."

"It's not about one 'Aha!' moment. It's about the work you do every day to make progress."

"You don't get to connect a billion people without being very disciplined about your execution."

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

"It's better to move fast and learn from your mistakes than to move slow and not learn anything."

"We want to build a world where every person can have a voice."

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

"Every day I ask myself: how can I help the people around me be more successful?"

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

"The idea that you can just build a product and then people will use it is not how the world works."