Alibaba And The 40 Thieves Quotes

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the Greatest Failure.

The very important thing you should have is patience.” – 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

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

When you read too many success stories, you let it go to your head.

Amazon by comparison had about 230,000 employees, and Wal-Mart boast a massive 2.3 million employed around the world with 1.5 million just in the US alone.

A new wave is coming and jobs will be taken away.

don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.” – Jack Ma

It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.” – Jack Ma

Today is hard. Tomorrow will be worse. But the day after that will be beautiful. Most of your talent won’t make it past tomorrow.

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

Jack was quoted, “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

Alipay has over 400 million registered users who transacts over 175 million times in a single day.

They think that ‘I can be successful’ just because they read or heard the same thing”.

Alibaba was built with the right technology service in mind, at the right place and at the right time in China, with their burgeoning consumer population who are internet users reaching a mind-boggling estimate at 600 million.

My job is to help more people have jobs.” –

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.” – Jack Ma

Customers are first, Employees are Second and the Shareholders are third.

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

Jack’s intention is to create a platform to serve 10 million small business sellers.

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

When you have $1 million dollars, you’re a rich man.

When you have 10 million dollars, you’re in trouble; you worry about inflation and where to invest your money.

But when you have $1 billion, that’s not your money, it is the society’s trust, the shareholders; people believe that you can spend this money better & smarter

When we have money, we start making mistakes.” – Jack Ma

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

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

THE BIGGEST SHOPPING SITE UNDER Alibaba is Taobao, where there are over seven million merchants selling their products.

You need the right people with you, not the best people.” – Jack Ma

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

find the right people to start with, not necessarily the best people!

an estimated net worth of over $35 billion, Jack is now the richest man in China, out of a population of 1.38 billion people.

Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons(to fail) whereas success can be attributed to various different kinds of reasons.” – Jack Ma

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the Greatest Failure.” Jack Ma

THESE ARE THE 3 SIMPLE words that Jack has been told throughout his early life. “You’re no Good!

Ma, once told his son: “You don’t have to be the top student in your class, being mediocre is just as fine, just as long as your grades aren’t too bad. Use your free time to learn other stuff,

For those of you who are able to prepare and catch up with the wave will benefit massively. But for those who fall behind will suffer immensely.

success can come at any time and any age”.

Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.” – Jack Ma

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

I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.” – 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

by approximately 25% to 493 million. When the situation doesn’t favor you, always find a unique approach to turn things to your own advantage.

Alibaba views themselves not only as a marketing place, but a place where people spend time,

Life is so short & beautiful. Don’t be (too) serious about work. Enjoy (your) life.” – 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

You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.” – Jack Ma

It’s the customer who pay us the money, it’s the employees who drive the vision, and it’s the shareholders who when the [financial] crisis comes, these people ran away. My customers and my people stayed.” –

Let the Wall Street investors curse us if they wish, we will stick to this principle…

I pondered upon this for one night, and by the next morning, I decided I would do it anyway, even if all of the 24 people opposed the idea.” ~ Jack

Always judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. It’s easy to take his words today at face value but it is often difficult when you try to uncover how he originally arrived at that answer.

THE NEW GENERATION TODAY LACKS the patience to see things through. This has something to do with the way we’re consuming information from social media.

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

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

You need the right people with you, not the best people.” – Jack Ma

To quote Ma: “I am not good at math, have never studied management, and still cannot read accounting reports.