"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."

"The dynamics of a business are such that you need to be constantly learning."

"The creator economy is the future of work."

"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."

"Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth."

"My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money."

"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."

"There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true."