Jack Ma, or Ma Yun, is a Chinese business magnate, investor, politician, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. Ma is a strong proponent of an open and market-driven economy. A prominent business leader, Ma is seen as a global ambassador for Chinese business and as such is frequently ranked among the world’s most powerful people. He also serves as a role model for startup businesses. In September 2018, he announced that he would retire from Alibaba and pursue educational work, philanthropy, and environmental causes; the following year, he exited as executive chairman.
Some of the best quotes from Jack Ma are listed below.
- “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” – Jack Ma
- “A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.” – Jack Ma
- “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.” – Jack Ma
- “I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.” – Jack Ma
- “I don’t want people to have deep pockets but shallow minds.” – Jack Ma
- “I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.” – Jack Ma
- “I try to make myself happy 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.” – Jack Ma
- “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.” – Jack Ma
- “I’m a normal guy.” – Jack Ma
- “I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.” – Jack Ma
- “If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.” – Jack Ma
- “If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.” – Jack Ma
- “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.” – Jack Ma
- “If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?” – Jack Ma
- “Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons to fail, whereas success can be attributed to various different kinds of reasons.” – Jack Ma
- “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.” – Jack Ma
- “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.” – Jack Ma
- “It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.” – Jack Ma
- “Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.” – Jack Ma
- “My job is to help more people have jobs.” – Jack Ma
- “Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.” – Jack Ma
- “Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.” – Jack Ma
- “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma
- “No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).” – Jack Ma
- “Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.” – Jack Ma
- “The very important thing you should have is patience.” – Jack Ma
- “Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.” – Jack Ma
- “We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.” – Jack Ma
- “We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.” – Jack Ma
- “We’re never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, (people) who can die for those dreams.” – Jack Ma
- “When we have money, we start making mistakes.” – Jack Ma
- “When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.” – Jack Ma
- “Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.” – Jack Ma
- “You need the right people with you, not the best people.” – Jack Ma
- “You never know how much can you do in your life.” – Jack Ma
- “You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.” – Jack Ma
- “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.” – Jack Ma
- “You’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision.” – Jack Ma
- “You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.” – Jack Ma
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