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.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.

The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you’re refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

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.

The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn’t get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can’t imagine it would be much faster for VR.

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.

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.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook’s mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.