Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook/Meta founder

Contemporary influential 155 sayings

Sayings by Mark Zuckerberg

The way that you get to really big numbers is by doing things that are not just incremental changes.

2013 — Interview about innovation
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Yeah so if you ever need any info about anyone at Harvard, just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS etc.

2004 — Instant Message conversation with a friend about user data
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I think we shouldn't ask people to put in information that they're not comfortable sharing.

2005 — Interview discussing user privacy on Facebook
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I'm not going to sit here and say that we've never made mistakes. We have. And the important thing is that we learn from those mistakes.

2018 — Testimony before Congress
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I think that if you want to build a service that is for everyone, then you need to be very careful about not having it be too expensive.

2015 — Interview about Facebook's global reach
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We don’t think of the world as being made up of countries, we think of it as being made up of communities.

2017 — Facebook F8 Developer Conference
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I mean, it's not even like we're trying to censor people. We're trying to make sure that people are safe.

2018 — Interview discussing content moderation
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I actually think that the vast majority of people are good.

2019 — Interview with The Verge
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If you just give people a voice, and you give people power, the system will work out.

2010 — Interview about Facebook's mission
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I think that we have a responsibility to make sure that Facebook is a force for good in the world.

2017 — Facebook F8 Developer Conference
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I would rather have people use our products than make money.

2012 — Interview about Facebook's business model
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We're not trying to be a media company. We're building tools.

2019 — Interview with The Verge
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If you look at the arc of history, it's always gone towards more transparency and more sharing.

2010 — Interview about privacy trends
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I think people have really come to be comfortable with not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.

2010 — Interview about privacy trends
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The idea that you're going to create some new type of content that has never existed before, that's what we're going for.

2021 — Interview about the metaverse
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I think we've been very clear that we stand for free expression.

2019 — Interview with The Verge
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We're not going to take down content just because it's false.

2019 — Interview with The Verge
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I don't think that it is the role of a private company to censor or to do what I think of as being the job of a government.

2019 — Interview with The Verge
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We are a technology company, not a media company.

2018 — Testimony before Congress
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I believe that people should have control over their own data.

2018 — Testimony before Congress
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