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" Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things. "

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

" It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way. "

" I don't care about revenues. "

" People think, 'Jack, you do too much.' "

" The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell. "

" I'm a normal guy. "

" I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business. "

" Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future. "

" The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization. "

" Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there. "

" I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs. "

" We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes. "

" Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon. "

" When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result. "

" When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.' "

" Spending money is much more difficult than making money. "

" 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. "

" Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. "

" Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers. "

" The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together. "

Working Together

" When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month. "

" 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. "

" When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China. "

" I know nothing about technology. "

" The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things. "

" I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important. "

" Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come. "

" I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet. "