“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.”

Intelligent people need a fool to lead them.

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.

Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years.

Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years.

I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!

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

I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.

Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth.

I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

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

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee’s.

Don’t hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

I don’t care about revenues.

Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.

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

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it’s okay if education becomes a profitable business, it’s not okay if it becomes corrupt.

I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

I’m no longer an artist, I’m a business partner.

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

Who people like is their own business. It don’t concern me. I know what I do – and I’m having a lot of fun with the women that I’m with.

Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.