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"If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business don't overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth."
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"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."

"Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice."

"Employment deprives you of innovations."

"Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."

"The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't."

"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.'"

"Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision."

"Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope."

"Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands."

"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."
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"Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay."

"The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success."

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"Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it."
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