Jack Ma Quotes

Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.

Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.