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

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.

The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

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.

Desperate for answers, I go searching in the stars. I ask them: on a scale of one to catastrophe, how beautiful would they say we are?

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it’s ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out.

I used every color on my palette to bring you back to life. Now you paint the most beautiful rainbows in someone else’s skies.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that’s the beauty of it.

It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.