Jack Ma, also known as Ma Yun, is a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was born on September 10, 1964, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. He is the co-founder of Alibaba Group, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies. Ma started his career as an English teacher and later moved into the technology industry.
In 1999, Ma founded Alibaba, which initially served as a business-to-business marketplace for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company later expanded into consumer e-commerce, mobile payments, cloud computing, and digital media, among other areas.
Under Ma’s leadership, Alibaba became one of the world’s most valuable and innovative companies, and he became one of the wealthiest people in China. He stepped down as the executive chairman of Alibaba in 2019 to focus on philanthropy and education initiatives.
Ma is also known for his outspoken views on business and technology. He has advocated for a more open and inclusive approach to globalization and has been critical of China’s traditional education system.
Ma has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to business and philanthropy, including the Forbes Asia Businessman of the Year, the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocate.
“If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.”― Jack Ma
” You cannot unify everyone’s thoughts, but you can unify everyone through a common goal.”― Jack Ma
“I think in 10 years we’ll be bigger than Walmart.” ― Jack Ma
“Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.”― Jack Ma
“The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision.”― Jack Ma
” A new wave is coming and jobs will be taken away.”― Jack Ma
” If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.”― Jack Ma
“The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.” – Jack Ma
“Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.”― Jack Ma
“When people think too highly of you, you have the responsibility to calm down and be yourself.” – Jack Ma
“We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.”― Jack Ma
“My investment philosophy is: do not lose money.”― Jack Ma
” If you want to win in the 21st century, yo have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you are. Then you will be successful.”― Jack Ma
“Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueler and the day after tomorrow is beautiful.”― Jack Ma
“We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.”― Jack Ma
“Philanthropy is not about helping others, it’s about helping yourself. When you change, the world changes.” – Jack Ma
“It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.”― Jack Ma
“A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employees.” ― Jack Ma
“I failed a key primary school test two times, I failed the middle school test three times, I failed the college entrance exam two times and when I graduated, I was rejected for most jobs I applied for out of college,”― Jack Ma
“Be in love with the government, but don’t marry them.”― Jack Ma
“I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.”― Jack Ma
“No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you.”― Jack Ma
“I hope in my next life I can be a woman..”― Jack Ma
“I told my son, ‘You don’t need to be the top 3 in your class. Being in the middle is fine as long as your grades aren’t too bad. Only this kind of person has enough free time to learn other skills.” – Jack Ma
” Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.”― Jack Ma
“Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy lives.”― Jack Ma
“You need the right people with you, not the best people.”― Jack Ma
“If trade stops, war starts”― Jack Ma
” You’ve to make consumers smart. An e. commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.” – Jack Ma
“The opportunity lies in the places where complaints are.” ― Jack Ma
“Players should never fight. A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understands this, the sky’s the limit.” – Jack Ma
” If you are a wolf chasing rabbits, focus on one rabbit. Change yourself to catch the rabbit, but don’t change rabbits.”― Jack Ma
” Spending money is much more difficult than making money.” ― Jack Ma
“I was just trying to do a small business it grow that big, take that much responsibility and got in so much trouble. Every day is as busy as a President and I don’t have any power and then I don’t have my life.”― Jack Ma
“I call myself a blind man riding a blind tiger.”― Jack Ma
“If you want to win in the 21st century, yo have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you are. Then you will be successful.”― Jack Ma
“If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.”― Jack Ma
“If you have never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?”― Jack Ma
” Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” — Jack Ma
“Reading can give you a good head start; this is often what your peers cannot obtain. Compared to others, readers are more likely to know other industries’ strategies and tactics.”― Jack Ma
“No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).”― Jack Ma
“I don’t care about revenues. “― Jack Ma
“A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.”― Jack Ma
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” ― Jack Ma
Grow your mind, grow your culture, grow your values, grow your wisdom. I think China is going in this direction.”― Jack Ma
“If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.” – Jack Ma
“It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.” – Jack Ma
“I always believe that customers are #1, employees are #2, and shareholders #3”― Jack Ma
“A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” – Jack Ma
“If you can’t get used to being rejected – just like a boxer who cannot take the hits or punches, how can you ever win?”― Jack Ma
“If there are nice rabbits on the ground and if you want to catch one, just focus on one.”― Jack Ma
“The school teaches knowledge while starting a business requires wisdom. Wisdom is acquired through experience. Knowledge can be acquired through hard work.” ― Jack Ma
“You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.”― Jack Ma
“Of course, you’re not happy when people say ‘no.’ Have a good sleep, wake up, and try again.” – Jack Ma
“When we have money, we start making mistakes.”― Jack Ma
“If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.”― Jack Ma
“A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee’s.”― Jack Ma
“We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.”― Jack Ma
” Opportunities lie in the place where the complaints are.”― Jack Ma
” I am not good at math, have never studied management, and still cannot read accounting reports.”― Jack Ma
“You never know how much can you do in your life.” ― Jack Ma
” Between the ages of 50 to 60 years old”― Jack Ma
“30% of all people will never believe you.”― Jack Ma
“if you have never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?” ― Jack Ma
” You cannot unify everyone’s thoughts, but you can unify everyone through a common goal.”― Jack Ma
“Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. enjoy life.” ― Jack Ma
“When KFC came to China, 24 people went for the job, 23 people were accepted, I was the only guy.” ― Jack Ma
“If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-to-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.”― Jack Ma
“You never know how much can you do in your life.”― Jack Ma
“A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.” – Jack Ma
“You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”― Jack Ma
“If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the Greatest Failure.”― Jack Ma
” When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.”― Jack Ma
“If you don’t give up, You still have a Chance to Win. Giving up is a Great Failure.”― Jack Ma
“Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to society and improving the world is very difficult.”― Jack Ma
“Don’t try to be the best…Be the first.”― Jack Ma
“You’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision.” – Jack Ma
“A leader should have higher grit and tenacity and be able to endure what the employees can’t.”― Jack Ma
“Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.” – Jack Ma
“Everybody should have a dream.”― Jack Ma
“You should learn from your competitor but never copy. Copy and you die.”― Jack Ma
“When doing Sales, the first people who will trust you will be Strangers, Friends will be shielding against you, fair. weather friends will distance from you. Family will look down upon you.”― Jack Ma
“We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.” – Jack Ma
“It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.”― Jack Ma
“Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.” – Jack Ma
If you want to be a great company think about what social problem you can solve. It’s about solving the social problems.― Jack Ma
“You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.” – Jack Ma
“I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beach”― Jack Ma
“Success can come at any time and any age”.― Jack Ma
“You have got to keep trying, and if it doesn’t work, you always can revert back to what you were doing before.”― Jack Ma
“A good boss is better than a good company.” – Jack Ma
“We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.” ― Jack Ma
“Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.”― Jack Ma
“If you want your company to operate with wisdom and care, then women are best.”― Jack Ma
“My job is to help more people have jobs.”― Jack Ma
“Humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans..”― Jack Ma
“When we see something is coming, we have to prepare now.” “My belief is [that] you have to repair the roof while it is still [sunny].”― Jack Ma
“You have got to keep trying, and if it doesn’t work, you always can revert back to what you were doing before.” ― Jack Ma
“We are never short of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams.”― Jack Ma
” Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.”― Jack Ma
” Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.”― Jack Ma
“First love is the sweetest, so is your first try at launching your own business.”― Jack Ma
” Remember that your past success may lead to your future failure. However, if you learn a lesson from every failure, then you may ultimately succeed.”― Jack Ma
“30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.”― Jack Ma
“..and raise a bunch of kids. I think this is a good feeling. It’s also touching that my female friends tell me this is a good idea, that I should do it.”― Jack Ma
“I don’t want people to have deep pockets but shallow minds.” – Jack Ma
“Never deceive others, in business or in life. In 1995, I was deceived by four companies — four companies that are now closed. A company cannot go far by deceit.”― Jack Ma
“Never Give up. today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” ― Jack Ma
“No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.”― Jack Ma
” If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the Greatest Failure.”― Jack Ma
“Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to society and improving the world is very difficult.” ― Jack Ma
“You never know how much can you do in your life.” – Jack Ma
“I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.”― Jack Ma
“I think we have to get used to being rejected. We’re not that good.”― Jack Ma
“If you want to be a great company think about what social problem you can solve. It’s about solving the social problems.”― Jack Ma
“We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams.” ― Jack Ma
“In the age of AI, women’s attention to experience and detail can outperform machine learning, whereas men’s traits of rational thinking will be challenged by machines.”― Jack Ma
“Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.” – Jack Ma
” Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.”― Jack Ma
“Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.” – Jack Ma
“We should give the young people a chance.”― Jack Ma
“When we have money, we start making mistakes.” – Jack Ma
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. Most people die tomorrow evening.”― Jack Ma
“We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams.”― Jack Ma
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