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

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.

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.

America is not a country, it’s a business.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

I’m really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it’s their own business. Because as a Black man, I think you’ve got to be against any form of discrimination.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.