Facebook CEO and founder
Mark Zuckerberg is a true pioneer in technology.
Time magazine has named him
among the top 100 most influential people in the world, and his personal wealth
is estimated at more than $34 billion.
A portion of that wealth,
he just announced, will be dedicated to combating the Ebola virus.
Zuckerberg famously
launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in February 2004. Today, the
social network has, on average, over 800 million daily users, and was most
recently valued at$200 billion, Time reports.
In honor of the
wunderkind's unprecedented success, here are 10 of his best quotes to inspire
entrepreneurs in any industry.
We admit some of them are
just as out of the box as Zuck he is.
1. "In a world that's
changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not
taking risks."
—From an October 2011
interview at Y Combinator's Startup School in Palo Alto, California.
2. "The question isn't
'What do we want to know about people?,' it's, 'What do people want to tell
about themselves?"
—From a November 2011
interview with Charlie Rose
3. "I literally coded
Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server
for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the site, and we've funded
ever since by putting ads on the site."
—In the same Charlie Rose
interview, Zuck spoke about the social-media giant's humble beginnings
4. "A squirrel dying
in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people
dying in Africa."
—From a speech given to his
colleagues at Facebook about relevance, as reported by The New York Times
5. "Move fast and
break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast
enough."
—In an interview with
Business Insider's Henry Blodget, Zuck opened up about innovation, management,
and more. Recently, however, he announced that Facebook would be changing up
this motto
6. "This is a perverse
thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are
underestimating us. It gives us the latitude to go out and make big bets that
excite and amaze people."
—The entrepreneur offered
his thoughts on dealing with skeptics, in an interview at TechCrunch's Disrupt
SF conference in September 2012, as reported by Forbes
7. "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."
—From a Stanford University
speaker series on hiring the right people, given October 2005
8. "People don't care
about what someone says about you in a movie — or even what you say, right?
They care about what you build."
—From an interview with
ABC's Diane Sawyer in July 2010
9. "In Silicon Valley,
you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place
to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley]
is a little short-term focused and that bothers me."
—Also from the October 2011
interview at Y Combinator's Startup School in Palo Alto, California
10. "The question I
ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I
could be doing?' … Unless I feel like I'm working on the most important problem
that I can help with, then I'm not going to feel good about how I'm spending my
time.
—From Marcia Amidon
Lusted's biography "Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Creator"
Envious of the tech
prodigy's entrepreneurial success? Take his advice, and start breaking something
today.
Read more:
http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/mark-zuckerberg-move-fast-and-break-things.html#ixzz3GkPH8xNa