Alibaba Jack Ma Quotes

Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night .

It doesn’t matter how wealthy or powerful you are, if you can’t enjoy the sunshine, you can’t be truly happy.

In its early years, he gave three explanations as to why the company survived: "We didn't have any money, we didn't have any technology, and we didn't have a plan

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

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

The pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land

There will be light in your eyes only if there are dreams in your heart.

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

The short-termism among US policymakers has meant that the gains from globalization have been misallocated in a way that frustrated millions of Americans and spurred the populist reaction witnessed in 2016. As Alibaba founder Jack Ma pointed out at the Economic Forum in 2017, by choosing to spend $14.2 trillion fighting thirteen wars over three decades, rather than investing in America’s infrastructure, industry, and jobs, policymakers misallocated the wins from globalization. What was clear is that even thirty years ago, industrial jobs in the United States were already on the decline and exposing the economy to greater competition inherent in open international trade, further harming the American worker. The outcome was a missed opportunity to distribute the gains of globalization more widely (and in particular to America’s Rust Belt) and to fund a longer-term infrastructure investment strategy to galvanize the US economy.

But Taobao’s success is not explained by the xiaoer alone. The site works because it succeeds in putting the customer first, bringing the vibrancy of China’s street markets to the experience of shopping online.

helping move the country away from a “Made in China” past to a “Bought in China” present.

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.” –

Alibaba was created when Jack Ma was rejected.

Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night. They won’t be able to see the sunshine the day after tomorrow. Aliren11 must see the sunshine the day after tomorrow.” Cofounder

It would be three months before eBay woke up to the threat of Alipay. In January 2004, PayPal assembled a task force in San Jose to pick up on EachNet’s earlier unsuccessful efforts to devise an escrow solution. In the United States, eBay had shelled out $1.4 billion to buy PayPal in 2002. But it was slow to integrate the company and roll it out to China. To be fair to PayPal, regulatory obstacles in China were an important factor in the delay: The country’s banking sector is closely guarded

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

Alibaba has a very good PR team, very capable. Our only secret is to always tell the truth. No matter wherever or whenever, say what you’re thinking. Don’t say things that the media loves to hear or deceive them in order to cater to them. Tell a lie now, and you’ll be forced to keep it going even as you forget parts of it. This will only cause lots of pain. People like honesty. Not many people, however, will tell the truth at any time. Do so and you’ll differ from others.

One factor in his decision was a sense of giving it a try. Ma has always felt that one does not measure success just by the results; instead, he feels that the experience of doing something is in itself a kind of success. “You go out and charge around…if it doesn’t work, you can always bow out. But if you just think over thousands of things at night and in the morning keep on walking the same old path, you never get anywhere. You don’t grow. You might as well try.” Ma has often commented on the fact that he is praised less for his acumen than for his courage.

Alibaba reported record sales of $9.3 billion on “ Singles Day”, easily beating last year’s figure of $5.8 billion. Singles Day is by far the biggest day of the year for online retailers. Jack Ma, boss of the e-commerce giant, said that 275m packages would be shipped from orders made on November 11th. The day was originally dedicated to Chinese singletons but has recently morphed into a frenzy of consumerism.

When businessmen open up their computers today, they see Windows. Everything is Windows. In the future, what we hope you will see is a full-service window of Alibaba. Alibaba will become synonymous with trade.

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

Months before his Davos debut, Xi had struck a different tone in a speech to Chinese tech titans and Communist Party leaders in Beijing for a conference on “cyber security and informatization.” To an audience that included Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, high-profile People’s Liberation Army (PLA) researchers, and most of China’s political elite, Xi exhorted China to focus on “gaining breakthroughs in core technology as quickly as possible.” Above all, “core technology” meant semiconductors. Xi didn’t call for a trade war, but his vision didn’t sound like trade peace, either. “We must promote strong alliances and attack strategic passes in a coordinated manner. We must assault the fortifications of core technology research and development…. We must not only call forth the assault, we must also sound the call for assembly, which means that we must concentrate the most powerful forces to act together, compose shock brigades and special forces to storm the passes.” Donald Trump, it turned out, wasn’t the only world leader who mixed martial metaphors with economic policy. The chip industry faced an organized assault by the world’s second-largest economy and the one-party state that ruled it.

Более ощутимым бонусом для семейных пар и других сотрудников Alibaba является возможность взять беспроцентный кредит размером до $50 000, который можно использовать как аванс при покупке новой квартиры. Такой бонус очень высоко ценится среди сотрудников, работающих в городах, где недвижимость стоит дорого – например, в Ханчжоу и Пекине. Тысячи работников фирмы пользуются данной услугой предоставления кредита, и сумма, затраченная на нее компанией, сегодня насчитывает несколько сотен миллионов долларов.

Thomas Edison described himself as being “not at the head of my class, but the foot.” Einstein graduated fourth in his class of five physicists in 1900.54 Steve Jobs had a high school GPA of 2.65; Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba (the Chinese equivalent of Amazon), took the gaokao (the Chinese national educational exam) and scored 19 out of 120 on a math section on his second try;55 and Beethoven had trouble adding figures and never learned to multiply or divide. Walt Disney was a below-average student and often fell asleep in class.56 Finally, Picasso could not remember the sequence of the letters in the alphabet and saw symbolic numbers as literal representations: a 2 as the wing of a bird or a 0 as a body.57

Jack Ma, a former English teacher who would found Internet sensation Alibaba, was on the hunt for angel investors. Jack and I met at the Ritz-Carlton’s coffee shop in Hong Kong and he laughed at my request for a business plan. “Goldman Sachs is offering me five million dollars on the basis of an idea,” he declared. “Why do I need to give you a business plan when we’re just talking three million dollars.

The “Six Veins” of Alibaba’s “Spirit Sword” are “customer first, teamwork, embrace change, integrity, passion, and commitment.

When eBay entered the Chinese market in 2002, they did so by buying the leading Chinese online auction site—not Alibaba but an eBay impersonator called EachNet. The marriage created the ultimate power couple: the top global e-commerce site and China’s number one knockoff. eBay proceeded to strip away the Chinese company’s user interface, rebuilding the site in eBay’s global product image. Company leadership brought in international managers for the new China operations, who directed all traffic through eBay’s servers back in the United States. But the new user interface didn’t match Chinese web-surfing habits, the new leadership didn’t understand Chinese domestic markets, and the trans-Pacific routing of traffic slowed page-loading times. At one point an earthquake under the Pacific Ocean severed key cables and knocked the site offline for a few days. Meanwhile, Alibaba founder Jack Ma was busy copying eBay’s core functions and adapting the business model to Chinese realities. He began by creating an auction-style platform, Taobao, to directly compete with eBay’s core business. From there, Ma’s team continually tweaked Taobao’s functions and tacked on features to meet unique Chinese needs. His strongest localization plays were in payment and revenue models. To overcome a deficit of user trust in online purchases, Ma created Alipay, a payment tool that would hold money from purchases in escrow until the buyer confirmed the receipt of goods. Taobao also added instant messaging functions to allow buyers and sellers to communicate on the platform in real time. These business innovations helped Taobao claw away market share from eBay, whose global product mentality and deep centralization of decision-making power in Silicon Valley made it slow to react and add features. But Ma’s greatest weapon was his deployment of a “freemium” revenue model, the practice of keeping basic functions free while charging for premium services. At the time, eBay charged sellers a fee just to list their products, another fee when the products were sold, and a final fee if eBay-owned PayPal was used for payment. Conventional wisdom held that auction sites or e-commerce marketplace sites needed to do this in order to guarantee steady revenue streams.

Throwing even more fuel on this fire was Alibaba’s record-breaking 2014 debut on the New York Stock Exchange. A group of Taobao sellers rang the opening bell for Alibaba’s initial public offering on September 19, just nine days after Premier Li’s speech. When the dust settled on a furious round of trading, Alibaba had claimed the title of the largest IPO in history, and Jack Ma was crowned the richest man in China. But it was about more than just the money. Ma had become a national hero, but a very relatable one. Blessed with a goofy charisma, he seems like the boy next door. He didn’t attend an elite university and never learned how to code. He loves to tell crowds that when KFC set up shop in his hometown, he was the only one out of twenty-five applicants to be rejected for a job there. China’s other early internet giants often held Ph.D.s or had Silicon Valley experience in the United States. But Ma’s ascent to rock-star status gave a new meaning to “mass entrepreneurship”—in other words, this was something that anyone from the Chinese masses had a shot at. The government endorsement and Ma’s example of internet entrepreneurship were particularly effective at winning over some of the toughest customers: Chinese mothers. In the traditional Chinese mentality, entrepreneurship was still something for people who couldn’t land a real job. The “iron rice bowl” of lifetime employment in a government job remained the ultimate ambition for older generations who had lived through famines. In fact, when I had started Sinovation Ventures in 2009, many young people wanted to join the startups we funded but felt they couldn’t do so because of the steadfast opposition of their parents or spouses. To win these families over, I tried everything I could think of, including taking the parents out to nice dinners, writing them long letters by hand, and even running financial projections of how a startup could pay off. Eventually we were able to build strong teams at Sinovation, but every new recruit in those days was an uphill battle. By 2015, these people were beating down our door—in one case, literally breaking Sinovation’s front door—for the chance to work with us. That group included scrappy high school dropouts, brilliant graduates of top universities, former Facebook engineers, and more than a few people in questionable mental states. While I was out of town, the Sinovation headquarters received a visit from one would-be entrepreneur who refused to leave until I met with him. When the staff told him that I wouldn’t be returning any time soon, the man lay on the ground and stripped naked, pledging to lie right there until Kai-Fu Lee listened to his idea.

Figures such as Jack Ma, Pony Ma, and Robin Li never questioned China’s system as such, but they moved beyond it rapidly, displaying a sense of self-assurance, as if they felt entitled to succeed, that would have been impossible to imagine in the previous two generations.

The failure of these B2B marketplaces is a sharp contrast to the one major success story in B2B ecommerce from the dot-com era: Alibaba. Alibaba took a very different approach from these other marketplaces. Rather than going after large, consolidated industries, it went after small businesses. This strategy was the brainchild of Alibaba’s founder and CEO, Jack Ma. Ma’s vision was that “the revolutionary significance of the Internet is that it will enable small enterprises to operate independently.

Never give up! Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. If you give up tomorrow, you will never see the sunshine.

Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night.

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

Jack as “something of a rare species” in a nation “steeped in corruption.

Джек использовал любую возможность для практики английского языка. Он стал просыпаться до рассвета и на велосипеде за 40 минут добирался до отеля Ханчжоу, чтобы познакомиться с иностранцами: «Каждое утро с 5 часов утра я читал на английском перед входом в отель. Огромное количество иностранцев приезжали из США и Европы. Я проводил для них бесплатные экскурсии к Западному озеру, и они учили меня английскому. В течение десяти лет! Я практиковал язык каждое утро, и ни снег, ни дождь не были мне помехой».

Эти «города одного товара» могут представлять 80 и более процентов производства отдельных товаров – не только в Китае, но и по всему миру. Шаосин – город текстиля, Юнкан – город металлоизделий, где штампуют по 30 000 стальных дверей и 150 000 мотороллеров ежедневно. Тайчжоу известен как город швейных машинок, а Шэнжоу – как город шейных платков. Хайнин называет себя городом кожи. Существует даже город зубных щеток – Хуанцзи.

Right now there is a prime opportunity for all of us to change the rules of the game through e-commerce and shift the balance in favor of entrepreneurs like you. The Internet levels the playing field and gives everyone - be they big or small - a chance.

I use Thai Chi philosophy in business: Calm down, there’s always a way out and keep yourself balanced, and meanwhile, don’t try to kill your competitors.