Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

You have part of my attention, you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Did I accurately answer your condescending question?

I'm CEO, bitch.

If your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall... there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.

I guess what it probably turns out is, other people didn't care as much as we did.

The craziest thing to me in all this, is that I remember having these conversations with my friends when I was in college. We would just sort of take it as an assumption that the world would get to the state where it is now. But, we figured, we're just college kids. Why were we the people who were most qualified to do that? I mean, that's crazy!

Most applications are going to become social, and most industries are going to be rethought in a way where social design and doing things with your friends is at the core of how these things work.If the last five years was the ramping up, I think that the next five years are going to be characterized by widespread acknowledgment by other industries that this is the way that stuff should be and will be better.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

The thing that I really care about is making the world more open and connected. What that stands for is something that I have believed in for a really long time. Open means having access to more information, right? More transparency, being able to share things and have a voice in the world. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

I think it's totally fair to say we are a very good business," she says. "Not 'we will be,' but 'we are.'

It's like you go to a restaurant and bump into a friend...A lot of the reason why that seems so magical is because it doesn't happen often. But I think the reality is that those circumstances aren't actually rare. It's that we probably miss like 99% of it....When you have this kind of context of what's going on, it's just going to make people's lives richer...maybe now you'll start seeing a lot more of them.

In college I was a psychology major at the same time as being a computer-science major. I say that fairly frequently, and people can't understand it. It's like, obviously I'm a CS person! But I was always interested in how those two things combined. For me, computers were always just a way to build good stuff, not like an end in itself.

We're trying to map out what exists in the world. In the world, there's trust. I think as humans we fundamentally parse the world through the people and relationships we have around us. So at its core, what we're trying to do is map out all of those trust relationships, which you can call, colloquially, most of the time, friendships.

I found it funny what details they focused on getting right. I think I owned every single T-shirt that they had me wearing. But the biggest thing that thematically they missed is the concept that you would have to want to do something... in order to be motivated to do something like this. It just like completely misses the actual motivation for what we're doing, which is, we think it's an awesome thing to do.

It just strikes me as this huge issue that teaching isn't respected or compensated in our society for the economic value that it's actually probably producing for society.

[On having "Eliminating Desire" on his Facebook profile] I just want to focus on what we're doing. When I put it in my profile, that's what I was focused on. I think it's probably Buddhist? To me it's just... I think it would be very easy to get distracted and get caught up in short-term things or material things that don't matter. The phrase is actually 'Eliminating desire for all that doesn't really matter.'

I usually don't like things that are too much about me.

We have not bought a company for the company. We buy companies for the people.

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.

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