116 Best Mark Zuckerberg Quotes For Entrepreneurs & Creators

Pat Walls

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Updated: July 27th, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg is an internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and American media magnate.

He is famous for co-founding Facebook and is now their CEO and controlling shareholder.

Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People in December 2016.

As of July 2021, Zuckerberg has a net worth of $97B

We've put together an incredible collection of Mark Zuckerberg quotes to read.

Here they are:

116 Best Mark Zuckerberg Quotes For Entrepreneurs & Creators

List of Inspiring Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

“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

“If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.” – 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

“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’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.” – 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 most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.” – 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

“I mean, the real story is actually pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.” – 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

“There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice, and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I’ve probably made” – 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 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

“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.” – Mark Zuckerberg

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

“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.” – 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

“Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“A guy who make a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand.” – Mark Zuckerberg

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good. – Mark Zuckerberg

“People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I’d like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.” – Mark Zuckerberg

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. – Mark Zuckerberg

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

“The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better and that nothing is ever complete.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing, and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner.” – 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

“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

“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.” – Mark Zuckerberg

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. – Mark Zuckerberg

“I think the internet is really good in general because it helps people get access to more information.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“The biggest mistake we’ve made as a company is betting on HTML5 over native.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I started the site when I was 1I didn’t know much about business back then.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’ Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time.” – 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

“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

“If you don’t risk anything you risk everything” – 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

“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’re making a long-term bet that immersive, virtual and augmented reality will become a part of people’s daily life.” – 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

“We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“You don’t let people deter you. That’s how you do it.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.” – 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 not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.” – Mark Zuckerberg

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

“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 “Young people are just smarter.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television – by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Move fast, take risks, it’s okay to try big things you’re better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.” – 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

“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.” – Mark Zuckerberg “I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“My number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.” – 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

“It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Find that thing you are super passionate about.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’ Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“My goal was never to just create a company. It was to build something that actually makes a really big change in the world.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“In a recent survive of Millennials around the world asking what most defines our identity, the most popular wasn’t nationality, ethnicity or religion. It was “citizen of the world.” That’s a big deal. Every generation expands the circle of people we consider one of us. And in our generation, that now includes the whole world. This is the struggle of our time. The forces of freedom, openness, and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism, and nationalism – forces for the flow of knowledge, trade, and immigration, against those who would slow them down.” – 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

“Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.” – 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

“If you actually do something you love it’s a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I’m trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.” – 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

“Our society needs more heroes who are scientists, researchers, and engineers. We need to celebrate and reward the people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity and work to improve people’s lives.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” – Mark Zuckerberg

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. – Mark Zuckerberg “Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.” – Mark Zuckerberg

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on. – 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

“I think there’s confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals – some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we’re trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information, and share information.” – Mark Zuckerberg “There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Whatever you build, build with care. Anyone who has built something big, has done it with care.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.” – 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

“Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“In a world that’s changing so quickly, you’re guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks.” – 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

“The trick isn’t adding stuff, it’s taking away.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“We don’t build services to make money, we make money to build better services.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected… But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn’t how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie–or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.” – 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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. – 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

“Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.” – 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

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

“It takes courage to choose hope over fear.” – Mark Zuckerberg

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