“You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.”

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.

Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she’s easy then what does that say about me?

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don’t want it if it’s that easy.

It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.