Jack Ma Quotes


I do not do business with the [Chinese] government. If they want some work done, we connect them with firms that they can contract with. If they insist that they want to employ us, I do it for free and then ask them to go to others after that. This way we love each other.


Context

This is radically different from most other Chinese corporations and most American or other country corporations for that matter who seek as much government business as they can get. Alibaba—the largest e-commerce company in the world, larger than Amazon.com and eBay put together--had hundreds of millions of on-line Chinese buyers and hundreds of thousands of Chinese retailers. A huge proportion of Chinese retail sales go through Alibaba.


Citations

Jack Ma, Founder and CEO of Alibaba, Interview, CBS 60 Minutes, September 28, 2014

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Jack Ma
Jack Ma
  • Born: September 10, 1964
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Profession: Business Magnate, Investor, Philanthropist

Jack Ma Yun, is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. Ma is a strong proponent of an open and market-driven economy.