Jack Ma
Jack Ma
Ma Yun, known professionally as Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of successful Internet-based businesses. He is the first mainland Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth10 September 1964
CityHangzhou, China
CountryChina
two numbers three
The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.
winning vision locals
Global vision, local win.
jobs world changing-the-world
Change the world is maybe Obama's job.
leadership business world
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
results
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
chinese combining developed ended forces forming friendship friends-or-friendship great hikes
We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company.
business
What kind of business world are we living in?
learning
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
businesses change influence life love millions respect small
I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.
assets ebay good great love people
EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
business good learned playing
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.
chance dark days focused learned lessons rely strength team
The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
colleagues customers happy
I try to make myself happy, no, 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.
arrived china country god happiest left since
Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.