Mark Zuckerberg is worldly-known being the co-founder, CEO and President of the popular social networking site, Facebook.
He launched the "thefacebook.com" in 2004 which is then renamed as "Facebook" in 2005 where his fellow Harvard students can enter information and photos into a template that he devised.
With the help of his roommates, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, the site has been added with new features and made its way to become available to other campuses across his country.
Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on the rising company, and in May 2005, Facebook received its first major infusion of venture capital amounting to $12.7 million. As Facebook gains popularity, Microsoft paid $240 million for 1.6% stake in Facebook; and two years later, Digital Sky Technologies purchased 1.96% share for $200 million. (from britannica.com)
At the age of 23, Mark Zuckerberg became the world's youngest billionaire.
Today, I've listed 23 of his empowering quotes to keep your innovative spirit alive. As usual, we have our best picks prepared below, and a special video at the end of the list for you to watch and be inspired. Enjoy!
1. "The biggest risk is not taking any risk."
2. "If you don't risk anything, you risk everything."
3. "Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all."
4. "Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world."
5. "People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane."
6. "I think a simple rule of business is, if you the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a progress."
7. "If things aren't breaking, then you're not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes."
8. "When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress."
9. "People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things."
10. "My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program."
11. "If you actually do something you love, it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose."
12. "If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out."
13. "If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems."
14. "People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising."
15. "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."
16. "I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share."
17. "By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
18. "Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."
19. "There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice, and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on."
20. "I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time."
21. "The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better and that nothing is ever complete."
22. "The question I ask myself almost everyday 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. And that's what this company is."
23. "I think as a company, if you can get two things right - having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff - then you can do pretty well."
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