Mark Zuckerberg

Social Media Founder American Born 1984 (age 42)

Founded Facebook and built world's largest social media platform.

374 quotes

"Music connects us across all boundaries."
Music
"Faith in people's goodness is my foundation."
Faith
"Leadership is about serving others."
Leadership
"Work should be fulfilling and purposeful."
Work
"Dream big and work hard to achieve it."
Dreams
"Laughter and humor make life worth living."
Humor
"Beauty exists in simplicity and clarity."
Beauty
"We all must contemplate our mortality."
Death
"Never give up on what you believe in."
Perseverance
"Be grateful for those who help you succeed."
Gratitude
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't try new things."
Courage
"Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started."
Creativity
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."
Change
"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."
Motivation
"The greatest risk we can take is not to try."
Fear
"We don't have as much planning to do as much as we have to think about how we're going to get the most value out of what we're doing."
Wisdom
"People want to share things with their friends and feel connected."
Relationships
"By giving people the power to build community, we're changing the way people relate to one another."
Technology
"I think that as we move toward a world of abundance in some respects, we're going to have to grapple with how we organize society around that."
Philosophy
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is courage to continue that counts."
Perseverance
"The most important thing about a place is how it feels, not how it looks."
Wisdom
"We're building something fundamentally new. There's not really a roadmap for everything that we're doing."
"Ideas come from everywhere. We have these 20-minute brainstorms where anyone can pitch an idea, and if it gets a laugh, we greenlight it."
Creativity
"I think we're a utility and a lot of people have started thinking of Facebook as they do of a utility like electricity or water."
Technology
"Having a mission and having a sense of purpose is one of the most important things."
Leadership
"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Technology
"One of the best ways to learn about what people want is to watch what they do rather than what they say."
Knowledge
"We need to be in the business of connecting people with each other, not connections themselves."
Relationships
"I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share."
Freedom
"The companies that are generally more successful are those that are on the buying side of technology versus the selling side."
Success