Company Quotes

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

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.

When we were a smaller company, Facebook login was widely adopted, and the growth rate for it has been quite quick. But in order to get to the next level and become more ubiquitous, it needs to be trusted even more.

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.'

We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change.

We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience...This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users.

I think the reality is that writing code and building a product and then building a company actually is not a glamorous enough thing to make a movie about.

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.

When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

At Meta, we've been building social experiences for 20 years now. Originally, it took the form of a website, then mobile apps. But the thing is, I never thought about us as a social media company. We're not a social app company, we are a social connection company.

In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it and the board tried to fire me and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because I hadn't done a good job communicating. I don't want to blame them. I hadn't done a good job communicating the long-term vision because I didn't, I wasn't thinking about that at the time.

Critically, no one company will run the metaverse.

I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company. And obviously, all of the work that we're doing across the apps that people use today contribute directly to this vision in terms of building community and creators.

Hopefully in the future, asking if a company is building a metaverse will sound as ridiculous as asking a company how their internet is going.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve, there is scant a friend in that company.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.