Top 5 Mark Zuckerberg Quotes on Facebook
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1. “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
We all worry about the competition copying our tactics, which leads to great secrecy and infrastructure to protect said secrets. However, as Peter Theil advocates in his book Zero to One. You shouldn’t care about your competition, you should be building a product that is 10 times better than your competition. Utilizing the Lean Startup’s rapid prototyping. Facebook is able to test faster, fail faster, and outpace their competitors. Instead of squabbling in a conference room carefully planning their next big move.
2. “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.”
“Software is eating the World” — Paul Graham (Y-Combinator Founder). A unique property of software is the ability to scale exponentially with relatively minimum requirement of resources. Even teens and elementary students are able to build worldwide businesses from the comfort from their home. The world is going to be more reliant on code. And understanding the fundamental principles of code will most likely become necessary to survive in the every evolving environment.
3. “By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.”
A school of fish portray new group dynamics when clumped together. We would never have been able to guest the Social power that arose by connecting people across the world. Alongside with the drastically decrease barrier-to-entry for creating content, the aggregation and distribution channels empowered individual users to reach a worldwide audience. The Internet is about connecting people. And we are experiencing unprecedented innovation as a result.
4. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
What the definition of a “safe” life? Spending your life trying to please your boss while getting paid enough to survive the next month? What some perceive as stability may at the peak of concave graph. And what some perceive as risk may have anti-fragile properties that allow them to grow stronger with increased risk. Not taking risks increases your risk of falling behind the times.
5. “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”
Mark Zuckerberg is often asked, “What would you have done if you hadn’t built Facebook?” In which he always replies he would have tried to build a more connected world. Zuckerberg’s goal is the create a more interconnected world and has no interest in doing anything else. Building a company for the money can only go so far. You’re bound to face obstacles. The only projects that truly go the extra mile are startups imbued with personal passion.
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