Jack Ma Quotes
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Quotes to Explore
-
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
-
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
-
Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
-
My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
-
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
-
I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
-
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
-
I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
-
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
-
Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
-
The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
-
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
-
You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
-
For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
-
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
-
It's good to be intuitive.
-
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
-
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
-
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
-
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
-
Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV.
-
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
-
When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
-
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
