Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.

You need the right people with you, not the best people.

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.

When we have money, we start making mistakes.

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

I’m a normal guy.

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

We’re never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, (people) who can die for those dreams.

Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons to fail, whereas success can be attributed to various different kinds of reasons.

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.

You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society.

You never know how much can you do in your life.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

You’ve to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn’t sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

It’s very difficult to know the outside world, but you know yourself. You know your need and what you want. If I know myself better, I can change myself to meet the outside world.

Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team’s all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It’s easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

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.