Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.