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"Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come."
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"Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!"
"You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions."
"Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box."
"Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation."
"Don't always complain the way isn't there. If you can't find the way, create it."
"Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation."
"Curiosity is the art of creativity."
"Without doing anything physical you can use the hands of your mind to change the world."
"Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application."
"Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder."
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"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
"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."
"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.'"
"I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun."
"My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online."
"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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