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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Every technological revolution takes about 50 years. "

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

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

" I know nothing about technology. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States? "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm a normal guy. "

" I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "