So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Mark Zuckerberg More Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg More Quotes From 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 mediapeoplethinking The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently. Mark Zuckerberg communicationtryingpeople Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone. Mark Zuckerberg creativityvoicetwo If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan. Mark Zuckerberg japanwould-becountry With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts. Mark Zuckerberg impactopportunitygiving 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 goalmeanpeople 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 missionssocialworld On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week. Mark Zuckerberg seven-dayssixuse I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed. Mark Zuckerberg motivationpeoplethinking I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. Mark Zuckerberg googlestrongthinking I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have. Mark Zuckerberg abletechnologypeople Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. Mark Zuckerberg new-yorkgonepeople Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. Mark Zuckerberg desktopphonestvs 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 levelswritingfirsts When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there. Mark Zuckerberg collegepeoplethinking 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 communicationrealpeople Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. Mark Zuckerberg communicationadventurereality 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 organizationtwopeople 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 soundpeopleyears I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do. Mark Zuckerberg phonespeople
