Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

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

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

The main job of the entrepreneur is to define the mission, find and inspire the team, and lead.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.

I decided to sit quietly and do business and don’t stick your neck out and tell everybody everything belongs to me. That would only cause problems for myself. Therefore I never told these stories or declared all these things to anyone.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

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

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.