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"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."
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"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."
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"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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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.'"
Entrepreneurship
"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
"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
Leadership
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
Personal Growth
"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
"On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions."
Technology
"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
Diplomacy
"My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online."
Business Vision
"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English."
Personal Growth
"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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