Jack Ma on Work Quotes

"Your attitude is more important than your capabilities."

"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."

"Hire the people that are fit for the job, not the most talented."

"We keep on fighting. We keep on changing ourselves."

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

"I am a person who always looks forward."

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

"Alibaba is not just a job. It's a dream. It's a cause."

"If you want your life to be simple, you shouldn't be a leader."

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

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

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

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

"I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected."

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

"If you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve."

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

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

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

"The best assets you have are your young people."

"A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies."

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

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

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

"My job is to help more people have jobs."

"If you want to grow, find a good opportunity."

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

"996 is a huge blessing that many companies and employees do not have the opportunity to have."

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

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

"If you are 20 to 30 years old, you should find a good boss."

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

"The world is full of opportunities. It is also full of complaints."