Jack Ma Quotes

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

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• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Why
  • Brother
  • Stupid

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Different
  • Women
  • Thought

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Question
  • Child
  • Silent

• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Today
  • Society
  • Single

• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Stories
  • Anchor

• The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fair
  • Valley

• I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Never
  • Said

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Book
  • Religious

• Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Woman

• Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

  

  Hafez
  • Time
  • Love
  • Earth

• I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Thanksgiving

• The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • American
  • Quality
  • Leadership

• A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

  

  F. C. S. Schiller
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Truth

• In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money