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"Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."
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"Entrepreneurship is not a career choice, its a way of life!"
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"
"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
"The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!"
"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
"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.'"
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