Jack Ma

Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them.

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

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.

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

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.

In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

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

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.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

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.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

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.

Find the right people, not the best people.

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.