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Quotes About Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.
~ Jay Samit
I forget what I wore for my first encounter with Mark Zuckerberg. I know it wasn't a suit - that would have seemed out of place in the rigorously casual world of Facebook. I probably wore what I usually wear, a pair of jeans and a Gap T-shirt, maybe my black sneakers.
~ Tom Junod
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, warned Facebook of the need for consumer protection and an open Internet, and according to 'The Wall Street Journal,' Thune has sent a letter to Zuckerberg asking how the company chooses its trending topics and who is ultimately responsible.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
Mark Zuckerberg is the product of Facebook just as surely as Facebook is the product of Mark Zuckerberg.
~ Tom Junod
Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.
~ Ken Auletta
Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn't be begging for Facebook's endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg's promises of self-regulation.
~ Zephyr Teachout
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
~ Yuri Milner
The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.
~ George Packer
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Most of Mark Zuckerberg's income is just rent collected off the millions of picture and video posts that we give away daily for free. And sure, we have fun doing it. But we also have no alternative - after all, everybody is on Facebook these days.
~ Rutger Bregman
Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.
~ Daniel Lyons
One thing was clear. Their collective decision to switch their essay topics to condemn America seemed to have been compelled by the articles about Zuckerberg.
~ Suki Kim
Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook, and he's always been concerned about the internal beauty and logic of this creation that he's created. I don't think that the human implications of what he's created have often been apparent to him.
~ Franklin Foer
In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.
~ Jose Antonio Vargas
In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.
~ Jose Antonio Vargas
Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
~ Kara Swisher
Mark Zuckerberg allegedly serving Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey an undercooked goat
~ Steven Levy
There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.
~ Sarah Lacy
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
~ Antonio Garcia Martinez
do you want Zuckerberg's algorithms telling you what to think as they tailor your timeline to their predictions of what will prompt a response? Do you trust him? Did you even see his haircut while he was testifying in front of Congress? Why did no senator ask him to explain the '90s goth-girl baby bangs?
~ Jen Lancaster