Jack Ma
Jack Ma
Ma Yun, known professionally as Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of successful Internet-based businesses. He is the first mainland Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth10 September 1964
CityHangzhou, China
CountryChina
chance dark days focused learned lessons rely strength team
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.
business good learned playing
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
assets ebay good great love people
EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
businesses change influence life love millions respect small
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.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
decided ebay nice team welcome
We welcome her and the eBay team to China, and with this Yahoo! deal, we decided to give them a nice big welcome gift,
chinese combining developed ended forces forming friendship friends-or-friendship great hikes
We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company.
learning
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
business
What kind of business world are we living in?
chance good today took yahoo
I think (in) search, we have a chance to win, When we took (over) Yahoo search, it was not good, and it is not good today either. We are here to make it better.
absolutely love
I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
love-you government ifs
If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.
men riding blind
I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
mistake making-mistakes
When we have money, we start making mistakes.