Mark Zuckerberg

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

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.

When we were a smaller company, Facebook login was widely adopted, and the growth rate for it has been quite quick. But in order to get to the next level and become more ubiquitous, it needs to be trusted even more.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

This is serious business. But it doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun along the way.

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

While I love technology and social media, a text or a tweet can never replace the real value of conversation.

From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.

My mother was an entrepreneur… She found being on relief humiliating. She built this business from scratch… In 1951 my mother opened this store…

If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

In business, cooperation is essential to success.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

[On Laura Nyro] I said to Laura ‘You know Laura, I think we should sell your music publishing company. I think right now is the right time you have three songs in the top ten this may never happen again and I think we can get a lot of money for it.’ And I made a deal with Clive Davis to sell Tuna Fish Music for $4 million. And that was a hell of a lot of money in 1969. It made her famous, it made her rich. It got people to listen to her music with her singing.

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.