01UndatedMy vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.Jack Ma / quote ↗
03UndatedI 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.Jack Ma / quote ↗
04UndatedI respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.Jack Ma / quote ↗
05UndatedWe should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.Jack Ma / quote ↗
07UndatedI'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.Jack Ma / quote ↗
08UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedThe lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, 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.Jack Ma / quote ↗
13UndatedThe more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.Jack Ma / quote ↗
14UndatedThe world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.Jack Ma / quote ↗
15UndatedAs a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.Jack Ma / quote ↗
16UndatedThe world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.Jack Ma / quote ↗
17UndatedTrust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.Jack Ma / quote ↗
18UndatedWhen we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.Jack Ma / quote ↗
19UndatedThe most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.Jack Ma / quote ↗
21UndatedOur philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.Jack Ma / quote ↗
22UndatedI'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.Jack Ma / quote ↗
23UndatedMy job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.Jack Ma / quote ↗
24UndatedIn the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'Jack Ma / quote ↗
