Top 50 Jack Ma Quotes

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’m humble ’cause I think many years ago people say, ‘Well, Alibaba’s terrible company‘. And I know we were not that terrible. We’re pretty good; we’re better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

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 American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far – experienced father.

A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It’s very easy to slip into a trade war.

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.

The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire – everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, 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.

IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together… But where did the money go?

It’s not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It’s your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

I respect Apple. It’s a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

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

Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.

I’m a normal guy.

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.

On privacy issues, it’s just like hundreds of years ago when people said, ‘I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.’ But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

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

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

Asia is changing, and China is changing. The ‘Post’ will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba’s resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the ‘Post’ can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

Every time there’s an election, people start to criticize China.

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.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in ‘guang-shi,’ face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There’s no trust system in China.

Chinese people, young people, they don’t go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.

When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that’s interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, ‘Alibaba is a good name.’

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.

People say, ‘Well you know the economy’s bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow’s money, and other people’s money maybe… We Chinese love to save money.

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive – make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

What kind of business world are we living in?

I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

If you’re doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

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