Clarke Duncan 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 pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

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.

Duncan B. Forrester, James Ian Hamilton McDonald, Gian Tellini. Encounter with God. T. T. Clark International: NY, 2004,

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

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.

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

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

infinite growth on a finite planet

We like to see ourselves as rational creatures, but we’re often ready to buy into whatever is most comfortable or enjoyable to believe. We like ideas that fit with our existing worldview. We like to believe what our friends believe. And most of us like to believe that the future looks rosy.

Similarly, the hit car show Top Gear has twice been caught faking a scenario where an electric car runs out of power during a review or feature to make for a more entertaining storyline.19

Alternatively, we could keep on as we are: ignoring or playing down the risks and putting responsibility for action elsewhere. But that would mean taking a monumental gamble with our children’s future, and a species as intelligent as ours surely wouldn’t do that. Would it?

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.

The amount of audio-visual material that Duncan had stored under misc was remarkable, even for an inquisitive ten-year-old. It was not that he lacked organizing ability—that was the most celebrated of all the Makenzie talents—but he was interested in more things than he knew how to index. He had now begun to discover, the hard way, that information not properly classified can be irretrievably lost.

As he listened, Duncan felt a growing sense of awe. Here was something completely outside his normal, everyday experience, yet he recognized it almost at once. In his ten years of life, the impressions of many worlds had been imprinted on his mind, and no one who had heard this most evocative of sounds could ever forget it. He was listening to the voice of the wind, as it sighed and whispered across the lifeless landscape a hundred meters above his head.

Without the low-cost delivery that the courier services provide, Alibaba would not be the giant it is today. To survive in a cutthroat industry, some of the courier firms have adopted clever methods to keep costs at rock bottom. In Shanghai, for instance, couriers shuttle back and forth on the subway, passing packages over the barriers to one another to avoid buying multiple tickets.