There is much to learn from Mark Zuckerberg, the face of social media. At the age of 23, he launched Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard. What was once a simple social network has grown into a platform that connects more than 1 billion people around the world.
Named one of Time’s 100 “most influential people in the world,” he is one of the richest people on the planet, and he uses his success to help others.
Read these 10 quotes from Zuckerberg about entrepreneurship, hard work, and risk.
On risk
“In a world that is changing so rapidly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not to take risks.”
On motivation
“Move fast and break things. If you’re not breaking things, you’re not moving fast enough”
On Hard Work
“People can be very smart or have skills that can be used, but if they don’t believe in them, then they won’t do the hard work”
On Entrepreneurship
“Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just about companies”
On Success
“The question I ask myself every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I need to do?’”
On Startups
“Mission building and business building go hand in hand”
On Leadership
“If you want to create something amazing, you have to focus on what the difference you want to make in the world is”
On Collaboration
“When you look at the greatest things that are done in the world, they’re not done by one person, so you have to build a team”
On Passion
“If you only work on things that you love and are passionate about, you don’t need a plan for how things will be done”
On success
“The most important thing entrepreneurs should do is choose something that interests you, work on it, but don’t turn it into a company until it really works.”
