"I'm a normal guy."
"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
"Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma."
"I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business."
"I want people to learn what democracy means."
"I know nothing about technology."
"I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets."
"I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?"
"Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there."
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
"People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'"
"What kind of business world are we living in?"
"I don't care about revenues."
"If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life."
"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
"I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected."
"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die."
"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."
"My job is to help more people have jobs."
"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."
"I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things."
"I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds."
"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."
"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English."
