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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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"Innovation lies in a creative mind."
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"Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation."
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"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."
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"Start the conversion process and birth your products."
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"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
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"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."
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"Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard."
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"Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps."
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"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"
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"During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel."
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"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."
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"As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone."
Business Ethics

"I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important."
Leadership

"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."
Challenge

"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."
Innovation

"The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together."
Leadership

"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
Globalization

"When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result."
Personal Growth

"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."
Entrepreneurship

"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
Globalization
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