A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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.

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

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.

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.

Leadership is your instinct, then it’s your training. Leaders are always positive, they never complain.

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.

I know nothing about technology, I know nothing about marketing, I know nothing about (the legal) stuff. I only know about people.

I do everything to make sure my customer is happy, my employee is happy, society is healthy. I would focus on customers, I would focus on not making money, I would focus on making values.

I always find people smarter than I am. Then my job is to make sure smart people can work together. Stupid people can work together easily, smart people can’t.