Jack Ma

Profession: Businessman

Nationality: Chinese

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, has been inspiring millions of people through his thoughts on leadership, resilience, and creative thinking. If you’re interested in learning from one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, explore some of Jack Ma’s most insightful and inspiring quotes on business and life below.

“If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?”

“I found that the more you care about your team, the team will care about you and the team will care about their customers.”

“If you want to be successful, learn from the other people’s mistakes, don’t learn from the successful stories.”

“Once in your life, try something, work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.”

“As entrepreneurs, if you're not optimistic, you're in trouble. So the people I choose, they have to be optimistic.”

“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”

“Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.”

“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.”

“The very important thing you should have is patience.”

“Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.”

“Spending money is much more difficult than making money.”

“You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”

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.”

“If you want to be successful, learn from the other people’s mistakes, don’t learn from the successful stories.”

“Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.”

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