If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan. — Mark Zuckerberg

Priscilla and i are so happy to welcome our daughter max into this world. — Mark Zuckerberg

Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world. — Mark Zuckerberg

Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet. — Mark Zuckerberg

We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today. — Mark Zuckerberg

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome. — Mark Zuckerberg

As the world gets bigger and more connected, we need that sense of intimacy more than ever. that’s why i believe that the future is private. this is the next chapter for our services. — Mark Zuckerberg

The world isn’t set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. — Mark Zuckerberg

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification. — Mark Zuckerberg

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for. — Mark Zuckerberg

With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so. — Mark Zuckerberg

I’m here to tell you finding your purpose isn’t enough. The challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose. — Mark Zuckerberg

Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It’s an interesting dynamic. — Mark Zuckerberg

If you’re diagnosed with a rare disease, you can join a group and connect with people with that condition all around the world so you’re not alone. — Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‘If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?’ — Mark Zuckerberg

In a world that’s changing very quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks — Mark Zuckerberg.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism. — Mark Zuckerberg

If you recognize that self–driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world. — Mark Zuckerberg

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. — Mark Zuckerberg

I mostly built stuff that I liked. — Mark Zuckerberg

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to. — Mark Zuckerberg

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of. — Mark Zuckerberg

I think as a company, if you can get 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. — Mark Zuckerberg

Stuff like photos and events and groups–we’ve built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations. — Mark Zuckerberg

I don’t want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago. — Mark Zuckerberg

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. — Mark Zuckerberg

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then. — Mark Zuckerberg

The trick isn’t adding stuff, it’s taking away. — Mark Zuckerberg

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person. — Mark Zuckerberg

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them. — Mark Zuckerberg

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. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

Our work to improve privacy continues today. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama. — 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

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. — Mark Zuckerberg

So we’re still looking into this, in general, we work with developers to make sure that they’re respecting people’s information and using it in only ways that they want. — Mark Zuckerberg

I thInk It’s Important that we don’t all get stockholm syndrome and let the companIes that work hard to charge you more convInce you that they actually care more about you. — Mark Zuckerberg

I thInk that makes sense and there’s a lot of detaIls to work out but It’s one of the thIngs I’m optImIstIc that could make thIs more sustaInable. — Mark Zuckerberg

I don’t hate anybody. The Winklevi aren’t suing me for intellectual property theft. They’re suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn’t work the way it was supposed to for them. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

In countries where we already are the leadIng platform there will be more ability to work on thIngs like payments In the near term and build In additional ways that people want to Interact privately. — Mark Zuckerberg

The most important thing that entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about, work on it, but don’t actually commit to turning it into a company until it actually works. — Mark Zuckerberg

It’s tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there’s a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we’ve already set out. — Mark Zuckerberg

In a democracy, i don’t thInk it’s right for private companies to censor politicians or the news. — Mark Zuckerberg

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5. — Mark Zuckerberg

We’ve shown time and again as a company that we have what it takes to evolve. — Mark Zuckerberg

I personally don’t invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn’t typically either. — 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

We’re running the company to serve more people. — Mark Zuckerberg

Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I’m really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this. — Mark Zuckerberg

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry–a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely–to push in a coherent direction. — Mark Zuckerberg

Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution. — Mark Zuckerberg

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company. — 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

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together. — Mark Zuckerberg

There are good examples of companies–Coca–Cola is one–that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come. — Mark Zuckerberg

In his first day, president biden has already issued a number of executive orders on areas that we as a company really care quite deeply about. — Mark Zuckerberg

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us. — Mark Zuckerberg

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone. — Mark Zuckerberg

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. — Mark Zuckerberg

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family. — Mark Zuckerberg

Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges. — Mark Zuckerberg

Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy. — Mark Zuckerberg

They just can’t wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things. — Mark Zuckerberg

In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open. — Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it. — Mark Zuckerberg

It’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers. — Mark Zuckerberg

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future. — Mark Zuckerberg

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships. — Mark Zuckerberg

The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people. — Mark Zuckerberg

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open. — Mark Zuckerberg

I’m sure we’re going to keep unearthing old issues for a while, so it may feel like we’re not making progress at first. — Mark Zuckerberg

I thInk people want to trust our IntentIon, people expect companIes to learn and not keep makIng the same mIstake. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It’s a ten–to–fifteen–year thing. — Mark Zuckerberg

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley. — Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely. — Mark Zuckerberg

Ai systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better. — Mark Zuckerberg