Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better.

Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let's figure out how to make that great. And then let's go figure out monetization.

Solving problems for users at scale ultimately results in monetization opportunities.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

We found we were able to create better, customer-centric product features more quickly with a more diverse product team.

In our product development cycle, we ask and listen to our customer about what she wants.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

The public is interested in the service it receives, not the mechanism that delivers it.

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

We need to create shareholder value. That is why I am here. That is what I need to do.

When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

Rather than focus on trying to get a lot of customers to market yourself, really focus more on the actual product or service itself and existing users to, like, what would make them happier, what would make them come back more and more times or in our case buy more often.

Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.