Joe Gebbia Quotes

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S.

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 know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.