Jack Ma on Wealth Quotes

"When we have money, we start making mistakes."

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

"If you want to win in the 21st century, you have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you are. Then you will be successful."

"I never thought I would be rich. I just wanted to do something I liked."

"Believe in the future, believe in the young people. This is the wealth of the world."

"The 21st century is not about the competition of power or money, it is about the competition of responsibility."

"Spend money on other people. Spend money on the future."

"Great opportunities are always hard to explain. Things that can be explained clearly are often not great opportunities."

"Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen."

"I try to make myself happy, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy."

"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."

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

"Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation."

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

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

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

"The worst people to serve are the Poor people. Give them free, they think it's a trap."

"The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about service."

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

"A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't."

"When you have a million dollars, that's your money. When you have twenty million dollars, you start to have problems. When you have a billion dollars, that's not your money, that's the trust society gave you."

"Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult."

"You need the right people with you, not the best people."

"If you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."

"We are never short of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams."

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

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

"My job is to help more people have jobs. That is my wealth."

"I find that when I don't think about money, the money comes. If I think about money, I will be very upset."

"The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive."

"We have to teach our kids to be very innovative, very creative. In this way, we can create jobs for our own kids."

"When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives [to] you. Interview by Charlie Rose of Bloomberg - video: 1 minute 53 seconds into the video"

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die."