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Never give up. Today is hard,
tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
When I am myself, I am happy and
have a good result.
Jack Ma Quotes:
1. "Today is cruel. Tomorrow is
crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful."
2. “No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have
the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you
(from any weak thoughts).”
3. “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.”
4. "It doesn't matter if I
failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed,
someone will succeed."
5. “You should learn from your
competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die."
6. "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. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to
win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives."
7. "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."
“Help
young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people
will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will
change the world.”
8. "If we go to work at 8 am
and go home at 5 pm, this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be
successful. If we have that kind of 8-to-5 spirit, then we should just go and
do something else."
9. "In carrying out e-commerce,
the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with
passion, to keep it up."
10. “If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s
any chance?”
11. "If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one
of us can defeat ten of them."
12. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is
the greatest failure.”
13. “Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about
work. Enjoy the lives.”
14. “Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.”
15. “When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on
your brain, not your strength.”
16. “Today, making money is very
simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and
improving the world is very difficult.”
17. “I don’t care about revenues.
18. “You never know that the things you’re doing are that
meaningful to society.”
19. “If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of
us can defeat ten of them.”
20. “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able
to endure what the employees can’t.”
21. “A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.”
22. “I don’t want people (in China) to have deep pockets but shallow minds.”
23. “I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.”
24. “You never know how much can you do in your life.”
25. “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”
26. “It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.”
27. “You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.”
28. “I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.”
29. “We’re never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, (people) who can die for those dreams.”
30. “The very important thing you should have is patience.”
31. “Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.”
32. “Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons(to fail) whereas success can be attributed to various different kinds of reasons.”
33. “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. His way of thinking is different. It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.”
34. “If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.”
35. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
36. “It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.”
37. “You need the right people with you, not the best people.”
38. “You’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision.”
39. “We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.”
40. “I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.”
41. “Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no
Alibaba or Taobao.”
42. “I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the
eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.”
43. "The dark days at
Alibaba": "If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when
you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your
strength."
44. “Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with
them, never marry them.”
45. “My job is to help more people have jobs.”
46. “When we have money, we start making mistakes.”
47. “We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.”
Jack Ma's smart words in different conditions
Alibaba founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma spoke
openly and at length about some of the key challenges facing the world,
delivering a stream of perspectives and guidance.
On the impact of technology
"We are very lucky because the world is in a big transformation because of technology. This new technology will create a lot of successful people, interesting careers but honestly every new technology will create social problems."If we don’t align together, human beings are going to fight each other, because each technology revolution makes the world unbalanced."
On the key to success
"To gain success a person will need high EQ; if you don't want to lose quickly you will need a high IQ, and if you want to be respected you need high LQ - the IQ of love."On women in business
"If you want your company to be successful; if you want your company to operate with wisdom, with care, then women are the best."37% of senior management in Alibaba are women. Part of the 'secret sauce' of our success is because we have so many women colleagues."
On the future of globalization
"I think globalization cannot be stopped - no-one can stop globalization, no-one can stop trade. If trade stops, the world stops. Trade is the way to dissolve the war not cause the war."Global trade must be simple and modernised; it must be inclusive so everyone has the same opportunity. The next generation of globalisation must be inclusive."
On the impact of artificial intelligence
"Artificial intelligence, big data is a threat to human beings. I think AI should support human beings. Technology should always do something that enables people, not disable people."The computer will always be smarter than you are; they never forget, they never get angry. But computers can never be as wise a man. The AI and robots are going to kill a lot of jobs, because in the future it'll be done by machines. Service industries offer hope - but they must be done uniquely."
On learning from failure
"Learn from your mistakes - no matter how smart you are you will learn from them. We must share the mistakes with others."My thinking is that - if you want to be successful, learn from the other peoples’ mistakes, don’t learn from success stories. The book I want to write is "Alibaba: 1,001 Mistakes".
On the value of teamwork
"You don’t need to know a lot of things, but you need to find the people who are smarter than you are. My job is to make sure smart people are working together.""The best way to promote your company is through your product or services, or employees."
On the education challenge
"A teacher should learn all the time; a teacher should share all the time. Education is a big challenge now - if we do not change the way we teach thirty years later we will be in trouble."We cannot teach our kids to compete with the machines who are smarter - we have to teach our kids something unique. In this way, 30 years later, kids will have a chance."
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