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

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" 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 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. "

" Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China. "

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

" EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it. "

" 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 don't care about revenues. "

" People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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 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. "

" If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us. "

" 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. "

" Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow. "

" 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. "

" It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down. "

" 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. "

Change The World

" 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! "

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

" I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things. "

" I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue. "

" 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. "

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

Working Together

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

" 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. "

" A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father. "

" On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions. "