Jack Ma Quotes

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

Fashion is about change, don't you think?

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Change before you have to.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

The world of marketing has changed. You can lead the change or be a victim of change.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

In any business, you have to evolve.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.