I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It’s a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.

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. And that’s what this company is.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.

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.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

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.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.

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

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.

In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

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.

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.