"I try to make myself happy 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."
-- Jack Ma"Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them."
-- Jack Ma"When you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
-- Jack Ma"They called me crazy Jack. I think crazy is good. we're crazy but we're not stupid."
-- Jack Ma"I never thought the money I have belongs to me. It belongs to society."
-- Jack Ma"A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee."
-- Jack Ma"Remember that your past success may lead to your future failure. However, if you learn a lesson from every failure, then you may ultimately succeed."
-- Jack Ma"You cannot unify everyone's thoughts, but you can unify everyone through a common goal."
-- Jack Ma"The world will not remember what you say, but it will not forget what you have done."
-- Jack Ma"Before you're 30, work for a small company, learn passion, learn to dream."
-- Jack Ma"If we want to change the world, we change ourselves."
-- Jack Ma"If you are poor at 35 you deserve it."
-- Jack Ma"I found that the more you care about your team, the team will care about you and the team will care about their customers."
-- Jack Ma"Don't make me happy, don't love me. Make your customer happy, make your customer love you, and I will love you any minute."
-- Jack Ma"There are no best people. The best people are always in your company, you train them to become best."
-- Jack Ma"I hate to hire people who come as experts because there's no experts of future, they're always experts of yesterday."
-- Jack Ma"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision."
-- Jack Ma"No matter how smart you are, you will encounter mistakes."
-- Jack Ma"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes."
-- Jack Ma"When everybody else believe it you have no chance. When only few people believe it, you believe it, you prove it, that's your chance."
-- Jack Ma"Luck is very important. Of course, you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you."
-- Jack Ma"It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start."
-- Jack Ma"If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve."
-- Jack Ma"If you cannot get used to failure — just like a boxer — if you can't get used to being hit, how can you win?"
-- Jack Ma