Mark Zuckerberg

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?’

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose… the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

We’’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Asking me to come work here is the dumbest idea you ever had. It has been a waste of a year.

The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics-except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation.