“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

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 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.