Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Mark Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, and quickly became popular as registered users could create profiles, upload photos and other media, and keep in touch with friends, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. In 2007, at age 23, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
Some of the best quotes from Mark Zuckerberg are listed below.
- “Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Find that thing you are super passionate about.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “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.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “We don’t build services to make money, we make money to build better services.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” – Mark Zuckerberg
