Jack Ma Quotes

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. ~ Jack Ma

EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win, ~ Jack Ma

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

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives. ~ Jack Ma

You worry, it comes. You don't worry, it comes. So what is the point of worry? ~ Jack Ma

I'm a normal guy. ~ Jack Ma

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up. ~ Jack Ma

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma. ~ Jack Ma

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds. ~ Jack Ma

Opportunities are where the complaints are. ~ Jack Ma

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible ~ Jack Ma

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third, ~ Jack Ma

Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation. ~ Jack Ma

Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you. ~ Jack Ma

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives. ~ Jack Ma

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. ~ Jack Ma

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). ~ Jack Ma

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit. ~ Jack Ma

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working. ~ Jack Ma

Giving up is the greatest failure. ~ Jack Ma

We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow. ~ Jack Ma

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. ~ Jack Ma

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. ~ Jack Ma

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. ~ Jack Ma

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

Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack. ~ Jack Ma

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you. ~ Jack Ma

When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches. ~ Jack Ma

Find the right people, not the best people. ~ Jack Ma

No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start. ~ Jack Ma

If you're still poor at 35, you deserve it. ~ Jack Ma

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes. ~ Jack Ma

If you don't give up, you still have a chance ~ Jack Ma

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee. ~ Jack Ma

You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society. ~ Jack Ma

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China. ~ Jack Ma

You never know how much can you do in your life. ~ Jack Ma

EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it. ~ Jack Ma

Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently. ~ Jack Ma

When we have money, we start making mistakes. ~ Jack Ma

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers. ~ Jack Ma

I try to make myself happy, no, 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. ~ Jack Ma

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

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. ~ Jack Ma

What kind of business world are we living in? ~ Jack Ma

Right now there is a prime opportunity for all of us to change the rules of the game through e-commerce and shift the balance in favor of entrepreneurs like you. The Internet levels the playing field and gives everyone - be they big or small - a chance. ~ Jack Ma

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. ~ Jack Ma

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes. ~ Jack Ma

I know nothing about technology. ~ Jack Ma

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things. ~ Jack Ma

What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore. ~ Jack Ma

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability. ~ Jack Ma

I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beach ~ Jack Ma

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump ... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you. ~ Jack Ma

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers. ~ Jack Ma

The very important thing you should have is patience. ~ Jack Ma

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies. ~ Jack Ma

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships. ~ Jack Ma

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. ~ Jack Ma

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling. ~ Jack Ma

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

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? ~ Jack Ma

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal. ~ Jack Ma

A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years. I thank the times of change and everyone's complaints. Because when everyone is complaining, that is your chance, an opportunity. It's only in times of change that someone can be clear of what he has and wants, and what he needs to give up. ~ Jack Ma

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow. ~ Jack Ma

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities. ~ Jack Ma

My job is to help more people have jobs. ~ Jack Ma

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated. ~ Jack Ma

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. ~ Jack Ma

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

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. ~ Jack Ma

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine. ~ Jack Ma

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. ~ Jack Ma

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision. ~ Jerry Yang

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3. ~ Jack Ma

There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder," Rabois says: "Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist. ~ Keith Rabois

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence. ~ Michael Sheen

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read ... or didn't read. ~ Charlaine Harris

Both of us had a lot to say, but there was no room to say it in, we were so tense and close. ~ Jack Kerouac

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else. ~ Jack Nicholson

I like to read I"m ten and a half. ~ Jack Carter

I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses. ~ Jack Black

Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline. ~ Jack Kruse

The blues and jazz will live forever ... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. ~ Jack Nicholson

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive. ~ Jack Welch

I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men. ~ Jack Kerouac

I took a six pound dump," Jack offered.
"You lie." I laughed. The J's could always make me feel better.
"It's true," Josh said. "Our whole scrimmage team weighed in before and after."
"I won twenty bucks!"
"Congrats, Jack. You've reached a new level of disgusting."
"But I won twenty bucks. ~ Kelly Oram

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved? ... But cold morning would return, with clouds billowing out of Lightning Gorge like giant smoke, the lake below still cerulean neutral, and empty space the same as ever. O gnashing teeth of earth, where would it all lead to but to prove that the proving itself was nil ... ~ Jack Kerouac

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. ~ Jack Foster

We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape
it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body. ~ Jack LaLanne

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else? ~ Jack Kerouac

Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way. ~ Jack Johnson

Are you always going to look this way, August? I mean, can't you get plastic surgery or something?"

I smiled and pointed to my face. "Hello?" This is after plastic surgery.

Jack clapped his hand over his forehead and started laughing hysterically.

"Dude, you should sue your doctor!" he answered between giggles. ~ R.J. Palacio

I tell Jack by accident. We're talking on the phone about unprotected sex, how it isn't good for people with our particular temperament, our anxiety like an incorrigible weed. He asks if I've had any sex that was "really stressful," and out the story comes, before I can even consider how to share it. Jack is upset. Angry, though not at me. I'm crying, even though I don't want to. It's not cathartic, or helping me prove my point. I still make joke after joke, but my tears are betraying me, making me appear clear about my pain when I'm not. Jack is in Belgium. It's late there, he's so tired, and I'd rather not be having this conversation this way. "It isn't your fault," he tells me, thinking it's what I need to hear. "There's no version of this where it's your fault." I feel like there are fifty ways it's my fault. I fantasized. I took the big pill and the small pill, stuffed myself with substances to make being out in the world with people my own age a little bit easier. To lessen the space between me and everyone else. I was hungry to be seen. But I also know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way. I never gave him permission to be rough, to stick himself inside me without a barrier between us. I never gave him permission. In my deepest self I know this, and the knowledge of it has kept me from sinking. I curl up against the wall, wishing I hadn't told him. "I love you so much," he says. "I'm so sorry that happened." Then his voice changes, from pity to som ~ Lena Dunham

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail. ~ Jack Welch

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore. ~ Jack Kilby

In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever ... listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. ~ Jack Kerouac

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career. ~ Jack Welch

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. ~ Jack Bowman

My ma was all of them at some time, and what she learned is that the best way to talk to God is by yourself. ~ Claire North