Don’t hire the most qualified, hire the craziest.

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.

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

As entrepreneurs, if you’re not optimistic, you’re in trouble. So the people I choose, they have to be optimistic.

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.

Philanthropy is not about helping others, it’s about helping yourself. When you change, the world changes.

In my life, it’s not how much we’ve achieved, it’s how much we’ve gone through the tough days.

On the path to success, you will notice that the successful ones are not whiners, nor do they complain often.

Before I’m 50 years old, my job is making money. After I’m 50 years old, my job is spending money, helping others, because you can’t spend all that money.

If you have different mindset, you will have a different outcome.

Today is difficult, tomorrow is much more difficult, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. Most people die tomorrow evening.

Of course, you’re not happy when people say ‘no.’ Have a good sleep, wake up, and try again.

China is opening, opening the door. And internet is the best way to let the people understand what’s happening outside.