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" Every technological revolution takes about 50 years. "

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" The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength. "

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

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

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

" Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently. "

" If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? "

" 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. "

" I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time. "

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

" Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world. "

" 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. "

" Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China. "

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

" The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy. "

" 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. "

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

" There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other. "

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" I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice. "

" I'm a normal guy. "

" I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business. "

" IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go? "

" When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it. "

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

" China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption. "

" I don't care about revenues. "

" 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.' "

" My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online. "