Mark Zuckerberg

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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.

There’s a level of service that we could provide when we’re just at Harvard that we can’t provide for all of the colleges, and there’s a level of service that we can provide when we’re a college network that we wouldn’t be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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.

A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

Hire character. Train skill.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

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

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

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

[‘Why don’t you manage me’ – Laura Nyro] Eventually I thought do I really believe that she could be one of the biggest stars in the world? Should I give up my career at this point in my life, where I’m doing so well, and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket? And I woke up one morning and I thought if you really believe it – go for it.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Exchange ideas frequently.