Jack Ma Quotes

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired. If I am not retired, then that means I should still be working hard, keeping the company running.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.

I believe Americans have a strong work ethic.

I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

I'm constantly working, even when I'm at home.

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

Our philosophy here, guys, is we're going to work as long as we have to to get the work done. I'm not one that wants the coaches to compete to see who can get in the earliest, who stays the latest, who passes themselves on the way into work in the morning.

If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.