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

Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

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.

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.

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

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.

Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.