Jack Ma

Asia is changing, and China is changing. The ‘Post’ will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba’s resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the ‘Post’ can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

Jack Ma

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.

Jack Ma

Change the world is maybe Obama’s job.

Jack Ma

Every time there’s an election, people start to criticize China.

Jack Ma

Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong’s uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures… China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.

Jack Ma

I absolutely don’t have $20 billion. But I’d love to, right?

Jack Ma

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

Jack Ma

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

Jack Ma

I call Alibaba ‘1,001 mistakes.’ We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn’t know how we’d make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

Jack Ma

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

Jack Ma