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The Rise of Jack Ma and Alibaba – A Case Study for Entrepreneurs

If you don’t know the names Jack Ma and Alibaba a similar comparison could be Jeff Bezos and Amazon.  Jack Ma founded and built a great company – Alibaba.  This video is definitely worth a watch.

Quotes from Great Entrepreneurs.

  • “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.” ~ Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba.
  • “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ~ Henry Ford, founder of Ford.
  • “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” ~ Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.
  • “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” ~ Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO.
  • “If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.” ~ Bill Gates“What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.
  • “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.” ~Jack Ma
  • “Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.” ~ Mark Cuban. 
  • “I don’t know what would have happened to WalMart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.” ~ Sam Walton, created the Walmart Supply Chain.
  • “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” ~Jack Ma
  • “I try to make myself happy 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.” ~Jack Ma
  • “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”  ~ Richard Branson, founder Virgin.

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