Jack Ma Quotes

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

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

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

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

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.

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

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

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

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.

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.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

I know nothing about technology.

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

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

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

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

I don't care about revenues.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

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

I want people to learn what democracy means.

Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.

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

Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.

We should never finish a 20 year program in two year.

When we have money, we start making mistakes.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

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

I would love to, if someone would lend me the money.

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

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

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

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

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

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

I'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.

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

As 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.