Jack Ma famous quotes

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

#Growing Up #People #Guy

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

#Jobs #Good Job

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
-- Jack Ma

#Believe #Wanted

If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.
-- Jack Ma

#Poor #Stills #Deserve

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

#Memorable #Entrepreneur #Should

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

#Leadership #Business #Real

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

#Wise #Smart #Heart

Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth.
-- Jack Ma

#Home #Youth #Bigs

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

#Ocean #Fighting #Winning

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

#Leadership #Business #Mean

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

#Important #Should

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
-- Jack Ma

#Doe #Matter #Form

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Opportunity

I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it. No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.
-- Jack Ma

#Regret #Successful #Careers

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

#Hard Work #Trying

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

#Eye #Technology #People

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

#Memorable #Matter #Succeed

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

#Giving Up #Memorable

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

#Baby #Giving Up #Opportunity

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.
-- Jack Ma

#Memorable #Thinking #Opportunity

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

#Home #Memorable #Successful

I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!
-- Jack Ma

#Attitude #Believe #Two

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

#Outcomes #Employee

Opportunities are where the complaints are.
-- Jack Ma

#Opportunity #Complaints

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest
-- Jack Ma

#Qualified

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

#Giving Up #Memorable #Young

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

#Inspirational #Team #Memorable

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

#Leadership #Business #Thinking

I know nothing about technology.
-- Jack Ma

#Technology

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

#Leadership #Business #Billions

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

#Want

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

#Leadership #Business #Complicated

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Skills

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

#Team #Memorable #Winning

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

#Leadership #Business #Real

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Employee

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

#Leadership #Business #Numbers

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

#Passion #Memorable #Important

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

#Leadership #Business #Trends

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Smart

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

#Business #Focus #Forget

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Endurance

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

#Leadership #Business #Choices

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

#Leadership #Business #Believe

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

#Leadership #Business #Giants

If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Real

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

#Successful #Training #Resilience

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

#Positive #Giving Up #Attitude

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
-- Jack Ma

#Enjoy

I don't care about revenues.
-- Jack Ma

#Care

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
-- Jack Ma

#Thinking #Assets #Great Company

I want people to learn what democracy means.
-- Jack Ma

#Mean #People #Democracy

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
-- Jack Ma

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Memorable

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.
-- Jack Ma

#Thinking #People #Too Much

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.
-- Jack Ma

#Trying #Not Happy #Colleagues

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.
-- Jack Ma

#Jobs #World #Changing The World

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
-- Jack Ma

#Today #Financial #Financial Markets

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

#Teacher #School #Cities

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
-- Jack Ma

#Regret #Walmart #Microsoft

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

#Leadership #Business #Visionaries

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

#Leadership #Business #World

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

#Firsts #Employee #Thirds

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

#Leadership #Business #People

All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it.
-- Jack Ma

#Mba #Said

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.
-- Jack Ma

#Inspiring #Important #Economic

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

#Entrepreneur #Leader #Grit

Giving up is the greatest failure.
-- Jack Ma

#Giving Up #Giving #Entrepreneur

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

#Entrepreneur #Leader #Vision

Global vision, local win.
-- Jack Ma

#Winning #Vision

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.
-- Jack Ma

#Focus #Rabbits #Want

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

#China #Company