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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
"When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly."
"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."
"You don't have to show people how successful you are."
"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."
"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."
"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
"Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends."
"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
"Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service."
"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself, it gives life to others as it transforms."
"When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result."
"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."
"I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors."
"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."
"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."
"Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries."
"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
"Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything."
"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
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