“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.”

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.

We also have a dog. His name’s Beast. He’s a sheepdog. He’s super cute. I love him.

People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.

If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about.

I’d like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

The question I ask myself like almost everyday is ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want.

I think as a company, if you can get 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.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.