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" I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets. "
Jack Ma
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" Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways. "
Jack Ma
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" Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States? "
Jack Ma
Money
United States
Us
" My job is to help more people have jobs. "
Jack Ma
People
Job
More
" My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online. "
Jack Ma
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" Trade is a communication of cultures and values. "
Jack Ma
Values
Trade
Cultures
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Story
Fair
Believe
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Choose
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Name
" I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time. "
Jack Ma
Apple
Great
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" People think, 'Jack, you do too much.' "
Jack Ma
Jack
You
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" 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. "
Jack Ma
Pay
University
Cost
" 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
High School
Teacher
School
" I'm a normal guy. "
Jack Ma
Guy
Normal
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Money
Work
You
" I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? "
Jack Ma
Right
Billion
Love
" 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.' "
Jack Ma
Money
Remember
Beginning
" The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization. "
Jack Ma
Made
Globalization
Dollars
" China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption. "
Jack Ma
Government
Weak
Investment
" Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access. "
Jack Ma
Will
Opportunities
Great
" 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
Home
Fun
Shoes
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Job
Help
Government
" Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack. "
Jack Ma
Shopping
People
Business
" I know nothing about technology. "
Jack Ma
Nothing
Know
About
" 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
People
Own
Name
" I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes. "
Jack Ma
Guy
Technology
People
" 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. "
Jack Ma
History
Change
Life
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Future
People
Confidence
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Happy
Myself
Good
" 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. "
Jack Ma
American
Business
Create
" The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West. "
Jack Ma
Perception
Chance
People
" 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. "
Jack Ma
Thought
Water
Deep