Mark Zuckerberg

We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges… If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I’d care to know about you.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Hire character. Train skill.

Should I give up my career at this point in my life… and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket?

I believe that any stock that is sold should have real value as automobile or bushel of potatoes, and stock market should be run as a vegetable market.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people … towards the employment most suitable to the interest of the society.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

Your business, and your brand, must first let people know what you care about, and that you care about them.

Our clients pay for value. London is the top city in the world, the best tax haven in the world for some and the top residential site in the city is One Hyde Park at the top end of Sloane Street.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.