Quotes from Jack Ma

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

I know nothing about technology.

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

You never know how much can you do in your life.

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

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.

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

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