My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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.
I respect Apple. It’s a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good… when trade stops, war comes.
I’m coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
The very important thing you should have is patience.
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in ‘guang-shi,’ face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There’s no trust system in China.
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.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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.