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.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

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.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

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

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.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

MySpace is an addiction.

Value is what you get.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

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

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Property is organized robbery.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

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.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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.