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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start."
"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.'"
"Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it."
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."
"The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination."
"The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!"
"DOOR MONEY To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue."
"Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do."
"We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields."
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"I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company."
"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
"What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone."
"I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company."
"It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get done."
"I think the world will be a much better place if we put our energy towards important things."
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