Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook/Meta founder

Contemporary influential 155 sayings

Sayings by Mark Zuckerberg

I mean, I'm not really a businessman, I'm a programmer.

2010 — Interview with The New Yorker
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We just did this for fun. We didn't think it was going to be a company.

2004 — Interview about Facebook's early days
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You have a lot of privacy controls, and we try to make it so that you can share with exactly the people you want to share with.

2011 — Interview with Charlie Rose
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I think the internet is a really interesting place because people can be whoever they want to be.

2004 — Early interview, possibly from college days
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I'm not a very emotional person. I'm very logical.

2010 — Interview about his personality
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I'm willing to bet that people will be spending more time in the metaverse than they are on 2D apps and websites.

2021 — Connect 2021 Keynote
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We're building a world where you can teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents' living room to catch up.

2021 — Founder's Letter 2021
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I think a lot of people just want to connect with their friends and family and share what they're doing.

2010 — Interview
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The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

2011 — Interview
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I remember I had a friend who was a photographer, and he posted his photos on his personal website, and I was like, 'Dude, you should just put these on Facebook.'

2007 — Early interview about Facebook's growth
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I literally started this in my dorm room and dropped out of college.

2007 — Interview about Facebook's origins
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The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

2011 — Interview
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Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

2009 — Early Facebook motto, later modified
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I wear the same thing every day, which is boring, but it's one less thing to think about.

2014 — Q&A session
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I'm not trying to be friends with anyone. I just want to connect people.

2009 — Quote attributed to him in 'The Accidental Billionaires'
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They 'trust me'. Dumb f***s.

2004 — IM message to a friend about Harvard users' data
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The average person today, I think, probably doesn't know what they want to share.

2011 — Interview with Charlie Rose
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I just want to make the world more open and connected.

2010 — Public statement
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Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

2017 — Facebook mission statement
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I actually think it is a pretty good thing that people are spending more time on social media.

2018 — Interview with Axios
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