“A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky’s the limit.”

I want people to learn what democracy means.

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

Don’t even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

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.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Drama rarely follows people who mind their business.

The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.