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Mark Zuckerberg time management quotes focus on prioritizing the most important product decisions and protecting long blocks of maker time. He emphasizes attention on a few big bets rather than busy schedules. These time management quotes by Mark Zuckerberg highlight prioritization, calendar control, and making time for building.
"Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend."
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"You are better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than not doing anything at all."
"Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges."
"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 what being 'not just a company' means to me is building something that actually makes a really big change in the world."
"Speed is the ultimate weapon. In business, if you move faster than your competitors, you win."
"It takes a long time to build a great thing. Most people don't have the patience for that."
"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 trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away the things that don't matter."
"Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies."
"The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating opportunity."
"Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand."
"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."
"If we want to have a big impact, the best way to do that is to focus on the long term."
"People don't care about what you say, they care about what you build."
"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
"The most important thing is to just keep moving. Don't let the small things slow you down."
"Focusing on the mission is what allows us to make the long-term decisions that are right for the community."
"The way that you get things done is by having a very clear sense of what you're trying to achieve."
"Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for."
"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."
"We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."
"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."
"Every day I wake up and I ask myself, 'How can I help the people around me?'"
"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to do anything new."
"Our philosophy is that we care about people first."
"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."
"Done is better than perfect."
"I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to make sure that we're focusing on the right things."
"I’m here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction."
"Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started."
"I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community."
"The question I ask myself almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'"
"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place."
"You should focus on the problems that you are most uniquely positioned to solve."
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