Mark Zuckerberg

United States
Born on 14 May 1984
Entrepreneur / Philanthropist

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The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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.
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. 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.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
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.
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
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... l really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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