Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that-and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

I think about the next season right away.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

We need to be in front of consumer trends and translate those trends into insights and foresights.

I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

It's incredibly important to be - once you do have a product - acutely observational about the trends.

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a distraction from primary goals.

We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

It's not a matter of being first, it's being there at the right time, being first in volume to market, and knowing what trends to stay away from.

When you are not playing much and you expect to play more, it is normal to think of the market. That's the modern game.

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.