Jack Ma Quotes
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The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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I don't care about revenues.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.