Mark Pincus's Quotes

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The test of any man lies in action.

Learn what you are and be such.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The best of healers is good cheer.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.