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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Trade is a communication of cultures and values. "

" I'm a normal guy. "

" I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you. "

" 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. "

" My job is to help more people have jobs. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every technological revolution takes about 50 years. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us. "

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

" 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. "