Mark Zuckerberg on Work Quotes

"Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon – including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio. Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects. These projects didn’t just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things."

"I think that some decisions that we made early on to localize the website and keep it separate for each college on the network kept it really useful, because people could only see people from their local college and friends outside. That made it so people were comfortable sharing information that they probably wouldn't otherwise, which made it useful in the long term for people to look up information about other people on the site. Bambi Francisco interviews Mark Zuckerberg in 2005"

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

"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."

"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for them."

"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."

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

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

"Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies."

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

"The people who win are the ones who care the most about what they are building."

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

"It's not about a single 'eureka' moment. It's about the work you do every day."

"People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard."

"Every day, I'm trying to figure out how to make the company better."

"The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' ... Unless I feel like I'm working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I'm not going to feel good about how I'm spending my time. From Marcia Amidon Lusted's biography Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Creator."

"Character is more important than any specific skill set."

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

"Done is better than perfect."

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to do anything innovative."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Success comes from the freedom to fail."

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

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place."

"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."

"I think that's the best way to learn—to just dive into something and start building it."

"I actually think that the best companies are often built by people who are trying to solve a problem that they have themselves."

"I think the reality is that writing code and building a product and then building a company actually is not a glamorous enough thing to make a movie about Mark Zuckerberg Says The Social Network Was "Hurtful," Parts Were "Made Up" (November 7, 2014)"

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

"Don't let anyone tell you to change who you are."