Best 82 quotes of Jack Ma on MyQuotes

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

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

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

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

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

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

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it.

A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years. I thank the times of change and everyone’s complaints. Because when everyone is complaining, that is your chance, an opportunity. It’s only in times of change that someone can be clear of what he has and wants, and what he needs to give up.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

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

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

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

Giving up is the greatest failure.

Global vision, local win.

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.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it. No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

I don't care about revenues.

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

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

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

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them.

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.

If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

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.

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.

If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

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

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

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.

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.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.