Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg
Last Updated: 24 Feb 2025

“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school—myumber one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.”
“Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.”
“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission—toake the world more open and connected.”
“Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.”
“I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.”
“I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.”
“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”
“I wear the same outfit,, orat leasta different copy of it almost every day.”
“Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.”
“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.”
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
“My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.”
“Once you have a product that you are happy with, you thenn need to centralize things to continue growth.”
“People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.”
“People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kindsbut also also more openly and with more people—andhat social norm is just something that has evolved over time.”
“The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, or or 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.”
“The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.”
“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.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail”
“They just can't wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things.”
“We Don't Build Services to Make Money, We Make Money To Build Services.”
“When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity—everything was anonymous or pseudonymous—and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.”