Quotes from Mark Zuckerberg

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

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.

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.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

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

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.

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.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

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

My friend Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures one summer, and Eduardo won't come close to getting in. The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.

If you just work on stuff that you like and are passionate about, you dont have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time

Creating channels between people who want to work together toward change has always been one of the ways that social movements push the world forward and make it better.

With a community that large and engaged, it needs a more open process of governance

If you dont need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations are not there in the same way.

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. Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

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

I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.