Mark Zuckerberg

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I'm CEO...bitch.

You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.

The question isn't 'what do we want to know about people?', it's 'what do people want to tell about themselves?'

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

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

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

The paradox is that people's desire to share and connect is in tension with their desire for privacy.

I'm here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction.

We don't wake up in the morning with the primary goal of making money.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'

I think as a company, if you can get those two things right—having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff—then you can do pretty well.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

I think that most good things get built by one or two people, and then they grow.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

It's not that we don't believe in privacy. We believe in giving people tools to control who sees what they share.

The most important thing is to just keep moving forward.

I think that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world.