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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM. "

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

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

" We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports. "

" 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. "

" The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world. "

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" Trade is a communication of cultures and values. "

" China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity. "

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

" A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated. "

" What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives. "

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

" The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No! "

" I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy. "

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

" If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success. "

" If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem. "

" I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result. "

" Every technological revolution takes about 50 years. "

" If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster. "

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

" When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought. "