Jack Ma

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

— Jack Ma

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

— Jack Ma

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

— Jack Ma

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.

— Jack Ma

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

— Jack Ma

I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

— Jack Ma

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

— Jack Ma

I know nothing about technology.

— Jack Ma

I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. Furthermore, I don't want to die in my office. Furthermore, I want to die on the beaches.

— Jack Ma

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

— Jack Ma