Chinese Quotes

133 quotes in this collection

"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present."

-- Lao Tzu

"They called me crazy Jack. I think crazy is good. we're crazy but we're not stupid."

-- Jack Ma

"You cannot unify everyone's thoughts, but you can unify everyone through a common goal."

-- Jack Ma

"Before you're 30, work for a small company, learn passion, learn to dream."

-- 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

"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

"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 cannot get used to failure — just like a boxer — if you can't get used to being hit, how can you win?"

-- Jack Ma

"If you want your life to be simple, you shouldn't be a leader."

-- Jack Ma

"If you want your business to succeed, it is critical to appoint enough female leaders."

-- Jack Ma

"Women balance the logic and the instinct. I would say this is the 'secret sauce' of the company."

-- Jack Ma

"When we see something is coming, we have to prepare now. My belief is that you have to repair the roof while it is still sunny."

-- Jack Ma

"Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy life."

-- Jack Ma

"Find the right people, not the best people."

-- Jack Ma

"Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers."

-- Jack Ma

"Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives."

-- Jack Ma

"A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't."

-- Jack Ma

"Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way."

-- Jack Ma

"If you want to win in the 21st century, you have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you."

-- Jack Ma

"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big."

-- Jack Ma
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