“The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.”

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.

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.

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don’t make any difference if it’s baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It’s business, I tell you. There ain’t no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you didn’t make mistakes, you wouldn’t get far.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.