Jack Ma Quotes

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Jack Ma

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 10, 1964

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.

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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

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

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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

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What kind of business world are we living in?

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I don't care about revenues.

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

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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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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.

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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.

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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.'

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