Jack Ma Quotes

"Intelligent people need a fool to lead them."

"Intelligent people want to lead a happy life. Wise people know how to sacrifice for the future."

"If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve."

"We are never short of money. We are short of people with dreams."

"If the customer is happy, the business is happy."

"If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them."

"Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers."

"If we want to change the world, we change ourselves. Changing the world is maybe Obama's job."

"If you want to be great, you have to think about how you can solve the social problem."

"If you view everyone as your enemy, everyone around you will be your enemy."

"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you must make your team have value."

"A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure."

"A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understands this, the sky's the limit."

"Before 30 years old, follow somebody. Go to a small company. Normally, in a big company, it is good to learn processing; you are part of a big machine. But when you go to a small company, you learn the passion, you learn the dreams."

"Work hard, play hard. If you don't enjoy your work, you will never be successful."

"Smart people need a fool to lead them. When the team is all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way."

"I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba."

"Machines will never have the wisdom, the soul, and the heart that human beings have."

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. , Spotlight: Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba.com - Business - International Herald Tribune, by SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOPJAN. 5, 2007 (The New York Times)"

"The very important thing you should have is patience."

"If the customer is happy, the employee is happy, then the shareholder is happy."

"Money is easy to get. But to have a dream that you can work on for 10 or 20 years is very difficult."

"Philanthropy is not about helping others, it's about helping yourself. When you change, the world changes."

"Customers are number one, employees are number two, and shareholders are number three."

"You have to work very hard. Every successful person works very hard."

"Instead of learning from other people's success, learn from their mistakes."

"Opportunities always lie in the place where people complain."

"The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done."

"Don't hire the best. Hire the right."

"If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure."

"I think that you, american people, worry too much about the China economy, [...] Every time you start to worry about the China economy, China goes better. : 6 minutes 08 seconds into the video"

"If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?"

"Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are."