No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
Interpretation
Every experience, whether it leads to failure or success, is valuable and contributes to our overall success.
Jack Ma emphasizes that the journey of gaining experiences is itself a form of success. It highlights the importance of learning from both failures and achievements, suggesting that each step taken, regardless of the outcome, enriches one's life and skills, ultimately contributing to personal growth and success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about perseverance and learning from mistakes.
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 successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
I don't regret any of the places I went in football. Everything gave me an experience or memories that I'll have forever. We had more success in San Francisco, but it was a great time everywhere. I always had fun.
In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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