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.
Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.
No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.
I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.
Opportunities are where the complaints are.
Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.
A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.
Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.
The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.
I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with “Open, Sesame,” the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.
The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.
If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.
If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?
Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.
We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.
You never know if the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.
We should never finish a 20-year program in two years.