Mark Zuckerberg

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn’t really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn’t until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Connectivity is a human right.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

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.

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

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.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don’t live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don’t be an automaton.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

One client didn’t want to go out so had us build him a nightclub in his house.

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

My mother was an entrepreneur… She found being on relief humiliating. She built this business from scratch… In 1951 my mother opened this store…

Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.

While several parties have expressed interest in buying the company, I’m not shopping it, I haven’t sold it and I’m not about to sell it.