“The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.”

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

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.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.

The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

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.

Opportunities are where the complaints are.

I’m coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.