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"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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"Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision."
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Personal Development
"Do not waste your life, in search for a job. Use your special gifts to create work for yourself."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"We all have the DNA of an entrepreneur.Some are building their own dreams.While most are building other people's dreams. Entrepreneurs are Dream Builders. Are you building yours?"
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Personal Development
"Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average."
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Personal Development
"Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do."
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Personal Development
"We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields."
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Personal Development
"An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep."
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Personal Development
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"
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Personal Development
"Employment deprives you of innovations."
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"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English."
Personal Growth
"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
Diplomacy
"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
"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
Globalization
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
Personal Growth
"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."
Globalization
"Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM."
Business Strategy
"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."
Work-life Balance
"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."
Leadership
"I know nothing about technology."
Leadership
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