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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."
"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."
"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."
"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."
"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
"To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery."
"Who wishes to fight must first count the cost."
"I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there."
"When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result."
"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
"Photography must be integrated with the story."
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery."
"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."
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."
"People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics."
"As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together."
"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
"The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united."
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