Jack Ma - chairman of Alibaba | Words Are God

1. I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!

2. 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.

3. The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.

4. Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

5. A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

6. Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

7. If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

8. 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.

9. No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you from any weak thoughts

10. A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

11. It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

12. Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.

13. Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

14. 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

15. Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

16. Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

17. If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

18. When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.

19. Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

20. No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

21. I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

22. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

- By Jack Ma