Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, is known for sharing wisdom about success and perseverance. He often emphasizes the importance of hard work and learning from failure. Ma believes that to achieve great things, one must be persistent and never give up, even in the face of setbacks. His advice usually revolves around the value of customer satisfaction and the significance of embracing change in the business world.
Through his experiences, he highlights the importance of teamwork and innovation. Ma’s insights are drawn from his journey of transforming Alibaba from a small startup into a global e-commerce giant.
Inspirational Quotes of Jack Ma
Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.
If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.
Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth.
Find the right people, not the best people.
Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
Opportunities are where the complaints are.
If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.
If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?
The very important thing you should have is patience.
Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy life.
I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.
A good job isn’t something you go out and find, it’s something you discover while you’re working.
Global vision, local win.
You never know how much can you do in your life.
The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.
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.
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.
Don’t hire the most qualified, hire the craziest.
The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.
We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.
A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
For e-commerce, the most important thing is trust.
Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn’t, it means you have hired the wrong person.
A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky’s the limit.
Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.
A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
When we have money, we start making mistakes.
Luck is very important. Of course you can’t wait for luck, because it won’t come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.
No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.
We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.
If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.
It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.
30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.
Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.
Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.
The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn’t regard yourself as a weakling.
If we go to work at 8 am and go home at 5 pm, this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-to-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.
All MBA have said are correct, but they can’t execute it.
I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.
I don’t care about revenues.
My job is to help more people have jobs.
Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.
When you have one million dollars, you’re a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you’ve got trouble, a lot of headaches.
A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee’s.
Don’t even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible.
I know nothing about technology.
Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
We should never finish a 20 year program in two year.
Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.
I absolutely don’t have $20 billion. But I’d love to, right?
I want people to learn what democracy means.
I would love to if someone would lend me the money.
Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.
Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.
Change the world is maybe Obama’s job.
I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
Be the last man standing.
If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.
You worry, it comes. You don’t worry, it comes. So what is the point of worry?
I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beach.