Zitat des Tages von Jack Ma:
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
I want people to learn what democracy means.
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.
I know nothing about technology.
China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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.
My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.
The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
I don't care about revenues.
I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
