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"There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other."
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"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"

"To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions."

"Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice."

"Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!"

"Disappointment and Depression are terrorists that kidnap people's original peace for no good reason. The Holy Spirit of God is a dependable army to drive them away! May you be free from being disappointed and depressed. May you have and share peace as long as you live!"

"Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!"

"You can't be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself."

"The wisdom to be on the throne of one's life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat."

"The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!"

"Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission."
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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.'"

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

"I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation."

"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."
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