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Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

From Mark Zuckerberg

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

From Mark Zuckerberg

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

From Mark Zuckerberg

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

From Mark Zuckerberg

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

From Mark Zuckerberg

Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

From Mark Zuckerberg

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

From Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

From Mark Zuckerberg

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

From Mark Zuckerberg

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