Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

I'm building a large company.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.

I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.

If I had been out in the industry instead of being a college kid who had an idea for another T-shirt, I would have been too scared to do anything.

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

When I started Mediaite, I didn't expect it to become the business that it's become.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.

If you want to go and build a company that exists in Silicon Valley, then you should go and do it there. But if you want to build a company that is Australian, that represents your culture and your being, then you should do it in Sydney.

I was a salary man for so many years. I never had to worry about the ins and outs of business or entrepreneurship or funding. I just had to show up and do my job. And then, all of a sudden, I was having to be responsible for my own business.

The creation of 'Into The Gloss' took less than a month. Glossier took twelve months and about a million dollars to hire the team, work with the chemists, order the inventory, get an office - you know, the whole thing.