Mark Zuckerberg the Businessman, biography, facts and quotes

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough"

"The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself"

"Our philosophy is that we care about people first"

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then"

"You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years"

"The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"

"I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded"

"People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time"

"Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them"

"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently"

"Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard"

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

"Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January"

"If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden"

"Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused"

"When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open"

"If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'"

"We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data"

"I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do"

"Connectivity is a human right"

"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now"

"I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken"

"I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome"

"I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day"

"Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth"

"I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system"

"A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely"

"Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content"

"When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference"

"All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program"

"There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp"

"The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music"

"I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed"

"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"

"I mean, we've 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 it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today"

"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa"

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent"

"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"

"We're running the company to serve more people"

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

"I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you"

"This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that"

"It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there"

"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person"

"Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on"

"If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code"

"When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did"

"Move fast with stable infrastructure"

"At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships"

Born as	Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Occup.	Businessman
From	USA
Spouse	Priscilla Chan
Born	May 14, 1984 White Plains, New York, USA
Age	39 years

Mark Zuckerberg Biography

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