People Quotes

"Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The people I am most afraid of are the clever ones. They have so many brains that they can think of mischief against me"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living"

Christian Bale, Actor

"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"We're running the company to serve more people"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"I am one of the people who love the why of things"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set"

Christian Bale, Actor

"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things"

Christian Bale, Actor

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