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" I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop. "

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" Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents. "

" Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'. "

" Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period. "

" It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it. "

" Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'. "

" As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn't make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law. "

" If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement. "

" When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry. "

" Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world. "

" I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business. "

" When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again. "

" It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier. "

" I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business. "

" If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page. "

" When you're introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, 'We could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?' "

" If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us. "

" 'Instagram' is great if you want to share photos, but you're not that technical. Or, if you're not interested in sharing publicly, 'Instagram' becomes a place where you can not only consume photos and videos from musicians, or whoever, but send them directly to your friends. "

" I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there. "

" I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried. "

" The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately. "

" Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me. "

" I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished. "

" I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world. "

" I do believe that Instagram has put a stake in the ground and we're growing more quickly than anyone. Is there something in there we could do to make it a multi-billion dollar business? I think we can figure out something along the way. "

" It's wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward. "

" Our goal is to allow people to use whatever app they want to get photos into 'Instagram'. "

" People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world. "

" If you focus on producing a great experience for anyone, that's how you get big. "

" Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. "