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Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I mean, weve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But its really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And thats whats so amazing about the scale that its at today.

By giving people the power to share, were making the world more transparent.

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

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasnt had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

Connectivity just cant be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and thats why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? Its just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I dont care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

I actually do think youre seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think thats a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into whats going on with them.