“I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”

I think there’s confusion around what the point of social networks is.

Connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

The trick isn’t adding stuff, it’s taking away.

I’m grateful to my mother for raising me with love and to all mothers out there for the important and challenging work you do every single day to make your family and the whole world a little bit better.

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.

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

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

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.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.

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

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

Entrepreneurship is about freedom, a chance to build a brand, an institution, showing the new way of doing something. 

Build the life you want to live.

We can not build a deep connection to someone who is disconnected from themselves.

Everything you are experiencing in your life build you for what you asked for.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.