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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.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Chance, Guaranteed, Quickly, Risks

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Compete, Very, About, Coherent

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Stupid, College, Some, Pranks

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.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Want, Go, About, Different Thing

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

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Think, I Think, WhatsApp, Messenger

If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Virtual, Code, World-Class, Ad

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Server, Side, Putting, Ad

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Some, Import, Inherently, Sites

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Big, Rather, Latitude, Excite

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Other, Scale, About, Different Countries

Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Challenges, Small, Play, Small Part

In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

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Building, Trend, Use, Directly

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

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Mistake, Biggest, Too, Betting

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.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Best, Giving Up, Very, Decisions

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Very, Different Place, Samsung

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'

- Mark Zuckerberg

I Remember, Cab, Maybe, Tech Companies

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Fast, Infrastructure, Move, Stable

If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Big, Through, Some, Yahoo

One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren't all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Some, Other, Our, Labs

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Doing, About, Almost, Brand

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Big, About, Big Change, Profit

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Big, Next, Tells, Figuring

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Language, Other, Around, Categories

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Hope, Communicate, Other, Every Single Day

I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.

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Think, I Think, App, Platforms

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Life, I Think, Feels, Richer

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Next, Clock, Needs, Blackberry

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

- Mark Zuckerberg

More, Facebook, Idea, Dorm

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Like, Wanting, Became, Alto

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Business, Need, Always, Primary

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