54 Solid Mark Zuckerberg Quotes To Build The Empire

If you’re going for the big prizes in life, then you’ve got to think like a madman! Mark might not have the best reputation, but he’s built the biggest social media platform that both users and advertisers adore.

And much of his success started in his dorm room and coding something brilliant. Facebook has connected much of the world and if you’re seeking massive success in the world of content and SaaS, it’s hard to look further.

Here are some of the highest impact quotes from Mark:

1. Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

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

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3. Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.

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4. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it’s not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. Silicon Valley is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.

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5. 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.

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6. People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.

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

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8. 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.

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9. Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.

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10. Some people dream of success…while others wake up and work hard at it.

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11. The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?

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

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13. When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

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14. Find that thing you are super passionate about.

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

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

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17. Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.

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18. In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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19. The Hack 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.

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20. By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

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21. I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.

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22. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.

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

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24. So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure.

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25. Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

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26. Our society needs more heroes who are scientists, researchers, and engineers. We need to celebrate and reward the people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity and work to improve people’s lives.

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27. There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice, and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on. 

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28. All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

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29. On engagement, we’re already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They’re more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

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30. 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 or any of those things. But what not being “just” a company means to me is building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

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31. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

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32. Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

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33. I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

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34. We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage… and we want to work this out, so that way, it’s a profitable model for our partners.

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35. We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

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36. I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the site, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the site.

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37. 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.

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38. The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?

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39. I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.

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

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41. One of things that I do focus on at Facebook is making sure the culture is very friendly and that people hang out. So instead of having 20% of people’s time working on projects I make people hang out with each other.

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42. People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

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43. It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

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44. We don’t build services to make money, we make money to build better services.

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45. I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you’re building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes

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46. The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

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47. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

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48. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today.

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49. This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

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50. A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

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

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53. People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie–or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.

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

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