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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Find the right people, not the best people.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Seventh Generation’s work with Carol Sanford made me a better values-based leader.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.

Persistence is the mother of personal change