The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.
We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do.
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
I mostly built stuff that I liked.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
You can be so bad at so many things... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable... you get through all that stuff.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing.
We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.
Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
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.
I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.
So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.
If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.
I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
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.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Young people are just smarter.
