Mark Zuckerberg

We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.

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 you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there’s been a liberating force that’s come from it.