Top 90 Jack Ma Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.”

— Jack Ma

52. “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.”

— Jack Ma

53. “The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.”

— Jack Ma

54. “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.”

— Jack Ma

55. “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.”

— Jack Ma

56. “All MBA have said are correct, but they can’t execute it.”

— Jack Ma

57. “I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.”

— Jack Ma

58. “You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.”

— Jack Ma

59. “I don’t care about revenues.”

— Jack Ma

60. “My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.”

— Jack Ma

61. “My job is to help more people have jobs.”

— Jack Ma

62. “Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.”

— Jack Ma

63. “I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with “Open, Sesame,” the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.”

— Jack Ma

64. “Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team’s all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.”

— Jack Ma

65. “Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.”

— Jack Ma

66. “If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.”

— Jack Ma

67. “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.”

— Jack Ma

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

— Jack Ma

69. “Don’t even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible.”

— Jack Ma

70. “My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.”

— Jack Ma

71. “I know nothing about technology.”

— Jack Ma

72. “Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.”

— Jack Ma

73. “A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.”

— Jack Ma

74. “In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.”

— Jack Ma

75. “I don’t want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.”

— Jack Ma

76. “We should never finish a 20 year program in two year.”

— Jack Ma

77. “Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.”

— Jack Ma

78. “I absolutely don’t have $20 billion. But I’d love to, right?”

— Jack Ma

79. “I want people to learn what democracy means.”

— Jack Ma

80. “I would love to if someone would lend me the money.”

— Jack Ma

81. “Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.”

— Jack Ma

82. “Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.”

— Jack Ma

83. “If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.”

— Jack Ma

84. “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.”

— Jack Ma

85. “I don’t shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.”

— Jack Ma

86. “Yahoo today is not a portal. Yahoo today is a search engine.”

— Jack Ma

87. “I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.”

— Jack Ma

88. “I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.”

— Jack Ma

89. “Change the world is maybe Obama’s job.”

— Jack Ma

90. “I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.”

— Jack Ma

91. “Be the last man standing.”

— Jack Ma

92. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.”

— Jack Ma

93. “You worry, it comes. You don’t worry, it comes. So what is the point of worry?”

— Jack Ma

94. “I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beach.”

— Jack Ma