Jack Ma Quotes

Quotes on Life

Your success in life might depend on your intellectual abilities to an extent, but the most important factor that would decide your success or your failure is your desperation to succeed.

Jack Ma

When life gives you lemons, you don’t just sit back and whine. You put the pedal to the metal and make some damn amazing lemonade.

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I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beach.

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You worry, it comes. Don’t worry, it comes. So what is the point of worry?

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Quotes on business

Forget about your competitors. Just focus on your customers.

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The best way to promote your company is through your product or services, or employees.

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Try to find the right people, not the best people.

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You should learn from your competitors but never copy. Copy and you die.

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Better to jump and make a mistake than to sit there too frightened to make a move.

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Discipline leads to habits. Habits lead to consistency. Consistency leads to growth.

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Quotes for Students

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

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Remember that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and small minds discuss people.

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If you don’t do it, nothing is possible. If you do it, at least, you have hope that there is a chance.

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Quotes on Leadership

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

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A good boss is better than a good company.

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Be the last man standing.

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If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.

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Quotes on Ethics

Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to society and improving the world is very difficult.

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Charity should not be done for publicity—it should be done quietly and anonymously.

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Other Popular Quotes

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

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The opportunities that everyone cannot see are real opportunities.

Jack Ma

I believe it’s not technology that changes the world. It’s the dreams behind technology that change the world.

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Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.

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