When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

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.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

MySpace is an addiction.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Leadership is influence.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I’m going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.