Mark Zuckerberg's Advice To 8th-Graders (VIDEO)

Ahead of Facebook's move to its roomy new Menlo Park offices, CEO Mark Zuckerberg paid a visit to the city's Belle Haven Community School and delivered a speech to the graduating eighth graders.

After a rocky start (the school's principle mispronounced his last name and introduced him as Mark "Zuckerman"), the young founder of the world's largest social network offered some sage advice--and a few anecdotes--to the graduates.

Zuckerberg stressed the importance of "eliminating the words 'I can't'" and laid out three important lessons he's learned since his middle school commencement.

First, he said, "anything that's worth doing is pretty hard and takes a lot of work."

Second, personal relationships with "people you trust" are extremely important.

Third, you should always "do what you love."

He also shared his standout memory from middle school about his Science Olympiad teacher, Mr. Walsh, who wore an eye patch and joked with students about being a pirate.

For Zuck's full speech, check out the video (below).

WATCH: [via TechCrunch]

Comments

[rview]

07:09 PM on 06/12/2011

Well done. Lucky kids. They will be inspired.

[Janice Fahber]

06:47 PM on 06/12/2011

I can't believe the principal introduced the creator of Facebook as, Mark SUCKERMAN. Is she some sort of idiot?? A principal has how many years of education?? She should be ashamed of herself. Just goes to show intelligence does not exclude a person from being an IDIOT!!!!

[YoBear]

01:14 AM on 06/12/2011

Quoting Zuck: "Second, personal relationships with "people you trust" are extremely important."

because you need these trusting personal relationships so you can steal ideas from them.

[Gerald OHare]

07:25 AM on 06/11/2011

You're a Billionaire Mark, go out and buy some new clothes.

[centered1]

10:13 AM on 06/13/2011

He's a prime example of "the clothes DON'T make the man."

[Jack Daniels Esq]

06:46 AM on 06/11/2011

A midget amongst his peers or is it pears ......?

[teach24 7]

02:47 AM on 06/11/2011

Thank you to those who support our school and community. If you'd like to make an impact, one possible way is donating to my classroom. We are in the heart of Silicon Valley, but are not quite keeping pace (and we just lost our tech support team for the district).

http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=531009&utm_source=dc&utm_campaign=facebook&utm_medium=projectpage

[George Garros]

12:31 AM on 06/11/2011

"Find an idea, and STEAL it! Now go out there and conquer the world!"

[abuckley23]

05:07 PM on 06/10/2011

It'd be awesome to watch him and Kristen Stewart have a conversation. The social awkwardness would be so strong that the space around them would become uninhabitable. Not to mention we could all laugh at them.

[RandyCantrell]

03:31 PM on 06/10/2011

Too bad she has poor communication skills. Pathetic. Did she graduate from middle school?

[LightShadow62]

03:08 PM on 06/10/2011

Zuckerberg does a commencement speech for 8th graders.

Puts his importance into perspective.

And couldn't he have come up with something that hasn't been used in every commencement speech since the dawn of time?

[Jack Daniels Esq]

06:48 AM on 06/11/2011

Now we know how WienerGate evolved ....

[SemperVeritas]

02:43 PM on 06/10/2011

Uh, Catharine:

Did the school's principle introduce him?

Or was it the school's principal?

[SemperVeritas]

02:43 PM on 06/10/2011

Uh, Catharine: Did the school's principle introduce him?

Or was it the school's principal?

(Hint: Spell-check doesn't always do the job.)